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

Both Sides of the Table

The Past (1985-2002). While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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

blog.expensify.com

If they use Haml, are they ignorant of HTML? But that might be too much for you to understand.Net (CRL) can run everything from Python, PHP, C#, Ruby and even languages out of your “standard” code-to-render-random-html like F# and Scala down to even C++ integrated in a way that no other platform supports. Matt Sherman.

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

Both Sides of the Table

The Past (1985-2002). They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? The Present Era.

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53 Top Conversion Optimization Tools Reviewed by Experts

ConversionXL

While they do offer now WYSIWYG editing, it is still at its best with manual HTML overwrite. They’re easy to use, you don’t need to be technical to get small tests running, and their new Stats Engine makes it harder for noobs to mess up tests. Cons: Stats Engine – Their stats engine is both a pro and a con for us.