• Google and the Wisdom of Clouds
  Very Borg-ish “It’s a network made of hundreds of thousands of cheap servers … the cloud regenerates as it grows, almost like a living thing.”
  (tags: Google cloud computing infrastructure scalability)
• Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Dominating the cloud
  “It wouldn’t be a surprise to see Google get into the pure utility computing business, but it would certainly accelerate the development of the computing-on-demand industry immensely, adding to its legitimacy and drawing in other big players.”
  (tags: Google cloud computting scalability infrastructure Amazon)
• Social Marketing: How Companies Are Generating Value from Customer Input – Knowledge@Wharton
  “a high-level look at some of the different ways that organizations have attempted to use social media to connect with customers over the past couple of years.”
  (tags: socialmedia marketing community Consumers UGC socialsoftware blogging)

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