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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). Listening to young people talk about social networking as a new phenomenon is a bit like hearing people talk about a remake of a famous song from my youth as though it was the original version. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king.

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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

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Image Credit: Siobhan Green. When we started our company in 2002 we decided that Sonjara would make a great name for our company or product; meaningful and unusual, as well as easy to pronounce and spell. Thanks to Siobhan Green, Sonjara, Inc ! #8 We were looking at off the wall names like Green Flame and things like that.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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Bix, 2002). The difference between point size and actual letter size (Image © Bix, 2002). It is often a better indicator of the apparent size of a typeface than point size ( Poulton, 1972 ; Bix, 2002 ). New York: Watson-Guptill Publishers. Counters are the “negative spaces” inside a character.

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12 Questions: Meet Dragan Lon?ar (Belgrade, Serbia)

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The eight is a pixel tree, picked a month ago here on the crowdSPRING by THE SUSTAINABILITY OPERATIONS SUMMIT, after being offered to dozen other green initiatives before, that at one point I started doubting the originality of it… but I was proven wrong. Somebody will eventually pick it, realizing the promotional benefits of it.

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Out of the Crisis #16: Robert Schooley on why we weren't prepared, long-term thinking, and how to make decisions for the greater good.

Startup Lessons Learned

We have a large number of American citizens, American green card holders who have gotten sick in Mexico and are coming back to the US for care. The overall number of new cases in the US had been decreasing. And initially it was a disease that was thought to be rare, was going to be seen mainly in New York and San Francisco.