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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 ). The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. It preceded the WWW but then become the onramp to the Internet for newbies.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

Predicting Streaming Video and the Birth of the Spreadsheet. A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks. It was difficult because we had limited bandwidth to send the bits through, and limited processing power to compress and decompress the video. Streaming video had finally made it.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. Next-generation chat, video calling, and project management software help keep teams in sync. In many places, mobile data and hardwired internet were still billed based upon usage.

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Can You Launch A Product With No Webinars, No Videos, No Multimedia And Still Succeed?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

In the last decade the world of internet marketing, like the internet itself, has become dominated by multimedia. For a good eight years from 1998 to 2006 all my online business projects were text based, with some images thrown. The post Can You Launch A Product With No Webinars, No Videos, No Multimedia And Still Succeed?

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. He created Wallstrip, and more than 400 original web video shows, which was purchased by CBS Corp. Mr. Lindzon’s new media and internet business investments also include: Limos.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Buddy Media, Ticketfly, Assistly, Bit.ly

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What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups?

Both Sides of the Table

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. Here’s my take: 1. Our current fund was raised in 2008/09.]

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international. He is proud to admit, for example, that Microsoft’s Kinect video game system, uses PrimeSense’s technology at its core.