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

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Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. Third-Party Tools Will Embed Social Features in Websites.

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

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Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. Enter Facebook. Facebook was everything that MySpace wasn’t.

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

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For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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