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

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What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Social Networking in Web 2.0:

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Avoid Monoculture. Travel. Read Widely. Let Experience be Your Compass.

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It was an “enterprise 2.0” panel at the dawn of what people began calling “web 2.0.”. It was also voted by Time Magazine as one of the top 100 novels of all time. I remember once sitting on a panel with Esther Dyson who is one of the most travelled and broad-experienced technologist I know. And don’t just trust me.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

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Getting on the front cover of the most prominent VC magazine in Europe (was called Tornado Insider). It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, But there is nothing that would ever replace the rush of being on the top of the startup emotional curve. Winning my first million-dollar contract. I was baffled.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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Check out the graph below from the Economist magazine. So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. Yesterday was a Monday. And not a pleasant one. When I first got into the industry it was 2007. Valuations were enormous relative to progress in companies.

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Interview with Sunil Rajaraman, Scripped

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Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 Zak had an idea for a screen writing magazine, and was trying to make it as a screenwriter, and found out there was a lack of good resources for people trying to scrap and get to the top. I went to UCLA Business School, and just graduated this past June.

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Popular Startup Opportunities That Aren’t

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CEOWorld Magazine prioritizes about 40 of the most famous business networking sites. Here are my favorites: Social and business networking sites. Just for starters, Wikipedia lists about 300 sites by name, which they claim is just some of the more notable social networking sites.

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TechZulu Live to Premiere "TZLaw" at 5:15 p.m. PT Thursday, October 7, with IP Attorney Denise Grayson of "The Social Network"

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They co-author a legal column on ethics in the social networking age for California Lawyer magazine and have presented together on Gov 2.0 Her practice has evolved with the Internet, from meta tag infringement, cybersquatting, and Napster, to technology IPOs, file-sharing litigation, Web 2.0,

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