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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. Social Networking in Web 2.0.

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

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GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). History repeats itself. Don’t Stop Believing. Social Networking in Web 1.0: then bought GeoCities for $3.6 They looked unstoppable.