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

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This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Why did Twitter emerge despite Facebook’s dominance? Why did MySpace lose to Facebook & what can Twitter learn from this?

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

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This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Why did Twitter emerge despite Facebook’s dominance? Why did MySpace lose to Facebook & what can Twitter learn from this? rose to prominence by offering a free, ad-supported alternative to all of the crap your mom got on AOL for a fee.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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I hate MVPs. So do your customers. Make it SLC instead.

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Examples include the first versions of WhatsApp, Snapchat, Stripe, Twilio, Twitter, and Slack. Some of those later expanded to add complexity (Snapchat, Stripe, Slack), whereas some kept it simple as a permanent value (Twitter, WhatsApp). It is not contradictory for products to be simple as well as complete. But there are other ways.

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The Parent Trap: A Response to Bill Keller (@nytkeller) on Twitter and Social Media

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The New York Times' Executive Editor, Bill Keller, wrote a piece for New York Magazine entitled " The Twitter Trap " in which he laments the pandora’s box of continuously connected social media he has just opened for his 13 year old daughter by allowing her to have a Facebook account. It's not the tech. I grew up in Brooklyn.

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The Screwy Logic of Crowdfunding and Venture Fund Regulation

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I can't put up my track record on my blog, which I'd happily do--whether I have any exits (even though it is theoretically public what I've worked on and who might have sold to a company that rhymes with hype) and how the other companies are doing. I can't tell you anything about it thanks to the SEC. scratches bald head].

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Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem

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The best hope you have for sending me an article that I read is to e-mail it to me or DM me on Twitter—and to hope that wherever I’m reading the web, I’m also checking messaging services. 3) Remix, Comment, Blog, Tweet. Now, I’m much more likely to share something on Twitter than I am to tag it in del.icio.us.