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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

The money slide is the graphic below. Things got so bad on one project that we ended up doing split shifts with teams of people programming from 8pm-6am and the next team arriving at 8am. Then the unintended consequences started cropping up. The chart shows three scarce resources and their improvements over time.

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

SoCal CTO

I started out with a handful of dimes making cold calls from a phone booth in Grand Central Station. I was on the way back to LA from a ski vacation in Switzerland where I decided while sliding down a glacier that if I survived I would start my own advertising agency. So cheer up everybody, this too will pass.

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

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It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere.