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Interview with Rahul Sonnad, Geodelic

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A few weeks ago, Rahul Sonnad --a serial entrepreneur who is best known for founding and selling thePlatform to Comcast--alternately confused and dazzled attendees at Twiistup, the Los Angeles tech conference, with a fake-stilted-Indian-immigrant and ukulele-singing-and-dancing studded pitch for his firm, Geodelic (www.geodelic.com).

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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

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. + web storage, elastic computing) from how you consume the Internet as a user (the front end – HTML). Brands took out advertisements espousing their “AOL Keyword.&#. The initial web HTML / browser experience was very limited. And now brands are advertising “www.facebook.com/brandname.&# Plus ça change.

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

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billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). 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. Don’t Stop Believing.