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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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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

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Second, Congress has passed the related America COMPETES Act of 2007, where COMPETES is (believe it or not) an acronym for Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science. Sylvester Reyes (D-TX), which is the STEM Promotion Act of 2007. You can affect this process. 4151 introduced by Rep.

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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. Third-Party Tools Will Embed Social Features in Websites: Meebo.

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

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Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. Factual was created in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, the founder of Applied Semantics. I was dead set against it.

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