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

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ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 MySpace vowed not to create anymore big successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire. The Past (1985-2002).

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How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess

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Who is this article for? Before you rush to implement the things suggested by this article, I should probably mention the following prerequisites. This article is a practical guide designed to help webmasters who already know what they want to block. Preliminary Information What are bots? htaccess overrides" enabled.If

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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

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The topic of whether the web is dead was kicked off by Chris Andersen of Wired Magazine in this article. web storage, elastic computing) from how you consume the Internet as a user (the front end – HTML). The initial web HTML / browser experience was very limited. I discussed these issues in the video. . + non-mobile).

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Sebastian’s Pamphlets If you’ve read my articles somewhere on the Internet, expect something different here. Topsy , for example, does respect the content producer — so morons using “Python-urllib/1.17″ or “AppEngine-Google; (+[link] appid: mapthislink)&# could obey the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), too.

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

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ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

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This likely means something like Google Analytics , although there is a very large universe of equivalent tools out there as well. Google analytics can’t really tell you much - it’s not very actionable. Via a JS interface called by the client (like Google Analytics) or server-side within your methods? as you go.

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