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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).

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. www.goodandgreen.biz Microsoft Office Buy Office Small Business 2007 now. Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. Register Now! Be extra productive. Learn more.

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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]. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. AOL is in the process of rebuilding itself and emulating a little-known LA-based startup called Demand Media. Enter Facebook.