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

Both Sides of the Table

[asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

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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]. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads.