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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. LinkedIn formed us into networks of networkers.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

Drapeau's permission, the AeA Los Angeles Council is furnishing this insightful speech below: I'm sure that all of you understand that what I'm going to talk about today is my own informed opinion, and not the official position nor policy of the U.S. government. Washington is run by a CEO reporting to a 535-member Board of Directors.

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

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Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? While Facebook was built on the idea that all our information was private and shared only between friend (before they changed this after the fact), Twitter was born under the idea that most of the information shared there was open and viewable by anybody.

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

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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. That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. We raised $16.5 million in our A round.

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