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

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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. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

Second, Congress has passed the related America COMPETES Act of 2007, where COMPETES is (believe it or not) an acronym for Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science. Sylvester Reyes (D-TX), which is the STEM Promotion Act of 2007. You can affect this process. 4151 introduced by Rep.

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

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billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). 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. Enter Facebook.