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

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Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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

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billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Don’t Stop Believing.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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The technically savvy reader, familiar with my attitude, has already figured out that I’ve read way too many raw logs. Think a bit farther … which knowledge would you sell to your clients in ten years when today all search/tech bloggers quit, so that you’ve to figure out everything by yourself?