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Top 10 Powerful Moments That Shaped Social Media History Over the Last 20 Years

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One of my favorite Facebook moments, in particular, is during an early 2004 interview on CNBC with Mark Zuckerberg: The anchor asks: “Now there’s a new form of cyber matching making, college networking websites. Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) March 3, 2014. Is this perhaps the next big thing ? I know I have!

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

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Hot or Not is rumored to have influenced the creators of Facebook and YouTube and nurtured millions of insecurities. Gaining traction: LinkedIn, YouTube, and WordPress (and more) arrive (2003-2005) In 2003, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facemash, described as Harvard University’s answer to Hot or Not. The Facebook” followed in 2004.

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Two Things That Should Rock Your World

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Will smartphones account for most visits to e-commerce sites by 2014? billion visits to the top 500 e-retailers in 2014, 26.4 Back in 2004, when Zuckerberg hacked together the first version of the site in his dorm room, the world looked very different. youtube. Here's the news from Internet Retailer : "Of 49.6

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Common Social Media Questions and Answers All Marketers Should Know

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Facebook: February 2004. YouTube: February 14, 2005. YouTube is a subsidiary of Google, which is owned by Alphabet. Google acquired YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 Facebook acquired Instagram in 2012 for $1 billion and WhatsApp in 2014 for $19 billion. Source: Hootsuite. When was Facebook founded? WhatsApp: 2009.

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How to Overcome Procrastination

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Not just with the business side of it all, but also things like starting a podcast or a YouTube channel. It was at the top of my Goals list for 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. I started ProBlogger back in 2004 because no-one was writing about blogging and how to make money from it. It’s the same with blogging. And then stick to them.

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How Social Media and Influencers Have Radically Changed B2B Marketing

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The original term ‘weblog’ was shortened to just ‘blog’ a year later, and that term was named Merriam-Webster’s word of the year in 2004.” LinkedIn was launched in 2003 and had reached one million users by August 2004. YouTube got started in 2005. You no longer needed to own a printing press.

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PB167: My Million Dollar Blog Post (and How Procrastination Almost Stopped me Writing It)

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There are many aspects of business, there are many aspects of creating pursuits like podcasting and YouTubing where there are no actual deadlines, or when we have these fuzzy deadlines and as a result we’re not motivated by them. At the top of my list of goals for 2013, 2014, 2015 was start a podcast. I didn’t do it.