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

Both Sides of the Table

By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. Twitter seems to have become a bit allergic to third-party developers (or maybe vice-versa).

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

Both Sides of the Table

By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).