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

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It encouraged groups of people to email everybody in their email address books and “connect&# on Plaxo so that when any of their contact information was changed online it could by synchronized with everybody’s local computer version and thus we could all stay in touch. LinkedIn formed us into networks of networkers.

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

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Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. But let’s be honest – they’re mostly the same old shit as Web 1.0, It was mostly timing.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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dealing with how digital or analog signals are actually transmitted for point A to point B), the network layer in the middle that deals with routing packets of information, to the presentation and application layer at the top end. That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. We raised $16.5 million in our A round.

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