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

Both Sides of the Table

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. It preceded the WWW but then become the onramp to the Internet for newbies. When Time Warner & AOL merged it was widely feared that this would be a monopoly that would control the Internet. For a nanosecond Rupert Murdoch seemed like the smartest guy on the Internet.

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

Both Sides of the Table

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. And then came AOL.

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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.

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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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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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