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

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. The conventional wisdom at Fox’s headquarters is that MySpace had “made&# both YouTube & Photobucket by allowing them distribution.

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Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem

This is going to be BIG.

I never would have paid for music back in 1999 or 2000 when I was sporting my 64mb Creative Nomad, powered completely ilegally by Napster. Adding your two cents and passing something along in a seamless act of curation is a very powerful feature. 4) Easy Payments that Ensure Virality. Because it was a tremendous pain in the ass.

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