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

Both Sides of the Table

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. When Time Warner & AOL merged it was widely feared that this would be a monopoly that would control the Internet.

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Interview with Dale Quayle, FileTrek

socalTECH

We're focusing on what we believe is a collision course between the desires of the mobile workforce--people like you and me who use their iPad, Android, or iPhone to get to our data and stuff and share it with other people--and the desires of business to make sure they can securely provide that information to both employees and people outside.

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

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In the same way the browser revolutionized the way we access information 15 years ago, WebRTC will transform the browser to become the primary mode of video and audio communication. Our first-of-its-kind architecture yields a delivery cost model that is highly disruptive and that translates to great affordability for our customers.

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

Both Sides of the Table

If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. I’ve written extensively on the topic , but in a nutshell it is: an RSS reader, a chat room, instant messaging, a marketing channel, a customer service department and increasingly a data mine.

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

Both Sides of the Table

dealing with how digital or analog signals are actually transmitted for point A to point B), the network layer in the middle that deals with routing packets of information, to the presentation and application layer at the top end. I had been selling large content management systems and storing documents for industrial-scale customers.

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