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

Both Sides of the Table

The Past (1985-2002). By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids.

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Welcome to the Widget Wars

Eric Friedman

The definition (of a web widget) of a widget from Wikipedia is as follows: The web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation. According to my own timeline, I would say 2002. Who is making the widgets?

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

blog.expensify.com

Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. NET is designed to tightly integrate with and seamlessly extend the Microsoft stack in extremely powerful but ultimately incremental ways. Some us have evolved past the visual designers. If they use Haml, are they ignorant of HTML? Alcides Fonseca. March 25, 2011 at 1:13 pm.

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