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

Both Sides of the Table

By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. In 1998 the Department of Justice launched an anti-trust case against Microsoft. Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

This was when the state of the art was click-to-refresh HTML form-based chats. The hosted offering worked by having users place an “HTML-snippet” on their own website, which would retrieve the Java Applet from our servers and connect back to our servers. In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., The product worked.

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If I Had To Do It All Over Again This Is What I Would Do Differently

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

In summary, I went online in 1998, played with the web for two years, spending my time on newsgroups, forums and surfing for information on the things I was interested in at the time. I built all the websites, including countless hours lost to making minor design tweaks because I wasn’t very good at HTML.

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

Both Sides of the Table

By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. In 1998 the Department of Justice launched an anti-trust case against Microsoft. Don’t Stop Believing.

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When to Use Tabbed Navigation and How to Optimize It

ConversionXL

Web design should be the same way. Matt Cronin, a freelance designer and developer, explains tabbed navigation well… Matt Cronin , Freelance Designer / Developer : “Well, it is essentially a set of buttons most often set horizontally. One of my favorite UX quotes comes from Chikezie Ejiasi , UX lead at Nest.

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Is Emotion Necessary To Make More Sales?

ConversionXL

It’s also long been recognized that Atmospheric Marketing - or ”the effort to design buying environments to produce specific emotional effects in the buyer that enhance purchase probability” – has been an effective way of increase purchases for physical retail locations. Emotional Design Influences Sales.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

User experience design and research. Case study: Icon design. Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Alex Poole. Site français. Skip to content.