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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

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First, A Primer: Portals, RSS, Feed Readers & Delicious - When the web started we needed directories to find information and thus Yahoo! They had a lock on “distribution&# and were named AOL, Yahoo!, Then came RSS ( Really Simple Syndication ) widely credited to Dave Winer for driving the spec & adoption.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. I believe it is the new form of RSS – the place people go to find out what is happening in the latest news.

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

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. In most instances news is now breaking on Twitter and then being picked up by news organizations. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? cheap accessible digital hardware].

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS. Jake Wood serves as President of Team Rubicon , the organization he co-founded following the massive earthquake in Haiti. Capsule is an event planning and group sharing platform built to help anyone who is planning, attending, or organizing a trip, party, or event. Idea Mensch.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 They also come in many different types from syndication formats like RSS and Atom to custom API streams.

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

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? cheap accessible digital hardware].