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

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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.

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

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This lasted from about 2001-2004. Provides publishers innovative site-search tools that enhance user engagement ( icanhazcheeseburger.com and Fred Wilson’s blog avc.com use Lijit as does Feld.com [but he's an investor]). To get to know more about how Mike Hirshland thinks make sure to watch a bit of the interview.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

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Founded by Matt Rutledge in 2004 and based in Dallas. Google wants to use the data to create new flight search tools. Acquired by Amazon for $110m. Woot was one of the first one-per-day item sales site with a humorous and not always PC content. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008. TechCrunch. TechCrunch.

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

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Mike believes the reason AltaVista didn’t become Google ( despite their market leadership position ) was because they didn’t focus on search. Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! Of course, monetization of search became one of the best business models in the history of business.

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

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They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. Enter Facebook. Facebook was everything that MySpace wasn’t. Or was it.

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Want to know why charging $12 / year converts higher than $9.99?

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And I’m sure everyone remembers the video that put them on the map – the one I first saw – which was the Bush/Kerry video This Land is Your Land (“you have more waffles than a house of pancakes), which was part of the 2004 elections and both candidates were asked about while they were campaigning.

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