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

Both Sides of the Table

Social Networking in Web 1.0: By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Social Networking (like the web) Will Split Into Layers: SimpleGeo, PlaceIQ. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Don’t Stop Believing.