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

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Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). People feared they were going to have a monopoly over the Internet due to “bunding&# Internet Explorer with their operating system.

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

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GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! History repeats itself. Don’t Stop Believing. Social Networking in Web 1.0: then bought GeoCities for $3.6 They looked unstoppable. It was mostly timing.