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

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. AOL is in the process of rebuilding itself and emulating a little-known LA-based startup called Demand Media. cheap accessible digital hardware]. Twitter is much more.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra).