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

Both Sides of the Table

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Twitter seems to have become a bit allergic to third-party developers (or maybe vice-versa).

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 5: Customer Relationship Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Many of the students had heard phrases that fall under Customer Relationships before; “customer acquisition, SEO/SEM, public relations, Social Network, Advertising, Loyalty programs, cross-sell and up-sell” etc., Their first effort didn’t get much traffic: 6 clicks out of ~2000 impressions. cloud, ec2, Amazon Web Services, etc.).

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

Both Sides of the Table

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. then bought GeoCities for $3.6

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CEO Interview with BlazeMeter, Self-Served Load Testing in the Cloud

VC Cafe

Alon: BlazeMeter is the first testing cloud with a sole focus on load testing, designed to simplify performance and load testing for developers and QA testers. The average Joe Developer/QA professional seldom opts to use one of the aforementioned vendor’s solutions, preferring to use a self-built solution, usually based on open-source JMeter.

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