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

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0

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

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified. In most instances news is now breaking on Twitter and then being picked up by news organizations.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Will it survive as long as you need?

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