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

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consumer companies were enhanced because they coincided with hardware that allowed us to capture more content instantly – namely images and video. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet.

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

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There were chat rooms, discussion groups, dating, classified ads – you name it. ones were enhanced because they coincided with hardware that allowed us to capture more content instantly – namely images and video – otherwide Web 2.0 At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).