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DECEMBER 5, 2010
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.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
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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DECEMBER 9, 2010
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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