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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). Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others.

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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! Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. History repeats itself. Don’t Stop Believing.