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

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Back then were were looking for the same things users look for today – the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra). Tweet its URI (not shortened - message incl.

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

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The main things I like to look at are new versus return visitors, top content pages, what pages are causing bounces, etc. Typically I would start out with a series of pretty plain HTML pages using tables that just print out SQL queries. Content creation? December 2007 (7). November 2007 (4). October 2007 (11).

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

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We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. Don’t Stop Believing.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. Video is the new HTML.” But I digress.

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