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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? And so it goes with social networking.

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Dave Gardner on Using Social Media to Connect With Big Companies

Life Beyond Code

Recently, my friend Dave Gardner (president of Gardner & Associates Consulting ) shared his story of how he used social media to reach (and start a working relationship with) a big company (Dell.) I have been a Dell customer since 2004. How did this come to be? Dave Gardner: This is a very interesting story, Rajesh.

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Economic Moats: Who Has Them? And How Do You Get One?

ConversionXL

Until 2004, when the U.S. Social networks have their own switching costs. When geography is the determining factor, efficient scale relies on mergers and acquisitions. But it also widens the moat in other ways, with hard-won backlinks and engaged social media followings.