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

Both Sides of the Table

Why did MySpace lose to Facebook & what can Twitter learn from this? MySpace grew faster because Friendster’s servers couldn’t scale. MySpace didn’t handle images or video well. So users put all their photos on Photobucket & their videos on YouTube and shared them with their friends through MySpace.

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Have you fallen into the buggy whip trap?

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] Here it is, not so many years later, and the signs are more subtle yet, but the speed of obsolescence is much faster. With rapid sharing of information and recommendations, a fickle public can change its mass preferences seemingly in an instant. Today the speed of obsolescence is even faster.

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Why You Should Put Yourself Out There and Try New Products

Both Sides of the Table

They thought it was like MySpace and why did I need a MySpace page? It was a break from information overload of Facebook. And honestly I love technology products and if you don’t try the newest stuff you’ll wake up an old person emailing from your Hotmail account with links to MapQuest over your dial-up AOL plan.

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Interview with Josh Brooks, Postcard On The Run

socalTECH

We spoke with Josh Brooks , the founder and CEO of the company, about what the firm is doing, his background at MySpace, and what's next for the company. I ran program and marketing for MySpace for a little over three years. After MySpace, I did the old Burbank to San Jose commute. I did content for that company.

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The “buggy whip” trap.

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here.] Here it is, not so many years later, and the signs are more subtle yet, but the speed of obsolescence is much faster. With rapid sharing of information and recommendations, a fickle public can change its mass preferences seemingly in an instant.

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Interview with Jason Kiesel and Kurt Daradics, FreedomSpeaks

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FreedomSpeaks is a startup developing a business around connecting people with information about their political representatives, and also enabling organizations and others to do the same. I am someone who likes to interact with my Representatives and Senators, by way of writing letters, emailing, and what not. It was a pain.

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Do your kids Google Poo?

Eric Greenspan

One day I get an email from Ms. I was surprised to learn that the reason she asked me to come see her was to help the school with a problem with sexting, Facebook/Myspace and cyber-bullying. I then sent an email to my CTO Jeremy Anticouni asking him if www.poogling.com was available. He replied laughing, “Not anymore!&#

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