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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. Here’s Why on his Both Sides of the Table blog for a good read and a good lesson. Subscribe to the Gust Blog. Subscribe by email. Invested Interests.

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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. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. It preceded the WWW but then become the onramp to the Internet for newbies.

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4 Reasons For Creating Your Brand Online On Your Own Land

Brandanew

While the brand/ products had found organic mentions all over the Internet and who’s who media of their particular industry, the brand itself had little presence on social media or Google. These are people born after the 1980s who grew into the online world of the Internet, social technologies, computers. The Platform Effect.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. In many places, mobile data and hardwired internet were still billed based upon usage. Today, even developing countries have fast wired internet. Ditto for Apple. Not likely.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. At the same time, acquisition opportunities will expand as large existing companies, unable to keep up with the pace of innovation in these emerging Internet markets, will “innovate&# by buying startups.

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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. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

Follow him on twitter at @hertling or visit his blog williamhertling.com. We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. They’ve been called “frighteningly plausible”, “tremendous”, and “thought-provoking”. By day he works on web and social media for HP.