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

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I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).

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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

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The topic of whether the web is dead was kicked off by Chris Andersen of Wired Magazine in this article. web storage, elastic computing) from how you consume the Internet as a user (the front end – HTML). The initial web HTML / browser experience was very limited. I discussed these issues in the video. . +

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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If you ask me, I think it’s one of the companies that has led and will continue to lead the transformation of media from a lethargic print-based (newspapers, magazines) and linear based (TV) format into the most successful digital media brand of the next decade. Video is the new HTML.” Back then there were “email forwards.”

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