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Evite Redesigns Site

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The service--which had been showing its age--looks to have overhauled its user interface to make it much easier and cleaner to send an invitation; has added new card designs; added social features via an "Event Conversation" product; and more. designs to the online invitations space.

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

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What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Social Networking in Web 2.0. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile. emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future?

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

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And while the App Internet is currently more powerful than the Mobile Internet it has fundamental flaws. In other words, our mobile devices are all powerful and the network that they connect into sucks. AJAX was one of the major drivers of the “dot com renaissance” that became known as Web 2.0.

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

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Before this South Korean wonder spread across the globe I had written about a trend in global audiences that exists when the costs of production are nearly zero and the costs of distribution are also nearly free. think Amazon) and therefore hits with high production costs were more suited to the medium. billion views. think Apple.

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Five Clues To Web 3.0 Opportunities Here Now

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Can you believe all the talk these days about Web 3.0? I’ve been doing some research to assess how much of it is reality, since I have to admit that I seem to have missed the clues to the transition to Web 2.0, After some work, I’m still convinced that much of the Web 3.0 Mobile smart phones. are appearing.

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Interview with Edward Park, Insteegram

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Users of the Instagram mobile application--which runs on iPhone and Android--are familiar with how that app has become one of the key ways people socialize and share their life with others, all via the service's photo sharing and comments. Edward Park: Our company, Rnddr Labs, is trying to create frictionless merch tools and products.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

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The success of the iPhone – The success of the iPhone and more importantly the App Store has led to an increase in early-stage VC fundings that mirror the Web 2.0 With the iPhone, Apple finally broke the hegemony that the telecom carriers had over mobile applications and that has stifled innovation for too many years.