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

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By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. Don’t Stop Believing. Social Networking in Web 1.0: GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo!

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

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Initally, the product development process should likely be focused on big-picture qualitative information, like whether or not your business is addressing the right audience as well as the preferences for that audience. Typically I would start out with a series of pretty plain HTML pages using tables that just print out SQL queries.

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