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

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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. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. 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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If you ask me, I think it’s one of the companies that has led and will continue to lead the transformation of media from a lethargic print-based (newspapers, magazines) and linear based (TV) format into the most successful digital media brand of the next decade. Video is the new HTML.” Back then there were “email forwards.”

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