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

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. At the top end is the business logic created by startups and established technology companies. emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future?

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Killer Apps

aweissman.com

As of December 30, 2007, 1.319 billion people use the Internet according to Internet World Stats. This is awesome – thank you for curating all this valuable information. Aside from the complex physical connections that make up its infrastructure, the Internet is facilitated by bi- or multi-lateral commercial contracts (e.g.,

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Transcript of The Key to Success? Taking Care of Your Community

Duct Tape Marketing

He is the CEO of Rainmaker Digital, founder of Copyblogger, host of unemployable and curator of further. It’s when you pull back the curtain on the wizard that people get creeped out by automation technology. How fast do you think the potential for change is happening given the rapid acceleration in AI technology?

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How and Why I Still Use Delicious

Duct Tape Marketing

Well, actually all Yahoo really did was make it Delicious.com, but fortunately they sold the technology to AVOS , a company founded by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. I use it to curate collections of things related to marketing topics. I know, I know, what, del.icio.us is so old school. Basic bookmarking. Auto publishing.

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

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. This allowed followers to be able to “curate&# their newsfeed with people that they found interesting. Enter Facebook.

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a16z Podcast: Growth in Turbulent Times

Ben's Blog

You typically have to have the more directive leadership style, versus curating things from the bottom up, in order to move quickly. Those things all got created in 2007, 2008. It’s very much aligned with some really big technologically-driven shifts. One is, recall the iPhone platform, the Facebook platform.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007. Without the proper technology to match people who wanted a ride with people who could provide that service, taxi and chauffeur companies were drastically underserving the potential market. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace.