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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform?

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Social Networks: Past, Present & Future.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future?