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

Both Sides of the Table

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. The Past (1985-2002).

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

Both Sides of the Table

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. 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 ). asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing].

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Twitter Networks are Different than Social Networks

Both Sides of the Table

They “don’t care what people ate for lunch.&# They’re fine on their existing social networks, which these days mostly means they’re happy with Facebook. Traditional social networks are more restricted to people whom I already know and information and updates are less discoverable. Strange, huh?

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Methods To Improve Your Website Content

YoungUpstarts

Curate Content. Of course you most certainly shouldn’t plagiarize; curation doesn’t entail this at all. Integrate Your Content with Social Media. Using the most-trafficked social networks, you can place snippets of your content on Facebook, tags on Instagram or even turn an article into a video for YouTube.

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[Review] Optimize

YoungUpstarts

Social listening tools like Radian6, Google Alerts, and Trackur may also help you to learn what’s buzzing on social networks. Use social networks to engage with community. This can be perceived through the following chart (courtesy of TopRank Blog ): b. Create + Curate Customer-Centric Content.

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How to win with marketplaces: The three success factors

The Next Web

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Sangeet Paul Choudary who analyzes business models for Internet startups at his blog Platform Thinking. This is similar to the critical mass of users that is needed on a social network for users to find value in the network. Matching: Curation of products/service.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. Dan McKinley and Wil Stuckey from the Etsy Curation team here. The Curation Team. You could just outspend. Well, half of it.