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

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Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features.

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

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If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. It was mostly timing.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. We raised $16.5 million in our A round.

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