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

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 ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? The Past (1985-2002).

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Netflix vs. Blockbuster and bad profits (reflections from my Bazaarvoice days)

Austin Startup

Netflix’s initial marketing campaign? Your initial marketing campaign could simply be, “The end of [insert bad profit source here]”, and you may indeed become the next Netflix and whomever your target is may become the next Blockbuster. Blockbuster’s campaign slogan for “Total Access” is “never be without a movie”.

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How Do You Know If Your Copy Is Any Good? (My 4 Step Process For Copy Testing)

ConversionXL

For example, consider the following piece of copy from CopyLogic: “In 2002, members of Congress and President Bush began formulating a new economic bill to benefit a certain group of investments. In 2002, members of Congress quietly passed a bill to help themselves. ” Don’t drag it out.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

Then from a bottoms-up standpoint what you said is exactly right, I think, which is that the new generation of employees grew up on smartphones and tablets and touch and everything, social networking and Twitter and everything else. So GoodData is an actual easy-to-use analytics package.

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How Do You Know If Your Copy Is Any Good? (My 4 Step Process For Copy Testing)

ConversionXL

For example, consider the following piece of copy from CopyLogic: “In 2002, members of Congress and President Bush began formulating a new economic bill to benefit a certain group of investments. In 2002, members of Congress quietly passed a bill to help themselves. ” Don’t drag it out.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. We have enough problems without opening the door for YASPFC (Yet Another Software Patent FUD Campaign). We wrote all of our software in VB6 and then ported it to.NET in 2001/2002.

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