Remove EC2 Remove HTML Remove Ideas Remove Yahoo
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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Smart people understood that people still wanted to accomplish on the world wide web all of things that we did in the pre-Internet world.

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

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GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API.