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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #100

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How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet - Gizmodo. When I first rediscovered the Web in 2004, it was WordPress , Wikipedia , Flickr and Delicious that revealed to me a new future. When I first rediscovered the Web in 2004, it was WordPress , Wikipedia , Flickr and Delicious that revealed to me a new future.

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Social Media Stock Talk: Five Reasons to Buy Facebook

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May 12, 2004: 2 for 1. IMAGE: thos 003 via Flickr, CC 2.0. And I haven’t even mentioned the best part: The stock has had five good splits to date: September 2, 1997: 3 for 2. August 3, 1998: 2 for 1. February 8, 1999: 2 for 1. February 14, 2000: 2 for 1 (Happy Valentine’s Day, shareholders). If Facebook is the next Yahoo!

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Everyone’s on Facebook, Why Aren’t They on the Intranet Too?

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Photo Credit: Flickr, myretailmedia. There are always those early adopters (think Twitter users in 2007 , Facebook users in 2004 ), but generally large-scale adoption of new communications tools takes years, often decades (think radio and television) – until now. Photo Credit: Flickr, jhoward413. Social Media is Fast.

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Getting Back on Track

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What they found was not malignant, thank goodness, but a 7 cm endometrioma (a cyst caused by the prevalence of endometriosis, which I was diagnosed with in 2004). Image: James F Clay via Flickr, CC 2.0. That’s about the diameter of a guava, or a small apple. Getting Back on Track.

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Jake's Take: Facebook Hits The Big 5-0-0

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Mark Zuckerburg launched Facebook in 2004 for his friendsand classmates at Harvard University, then continued to branch it out to otherschools. Despite the catches, Facebook is putting up very impressivenumbers for growth year after year. Even as recently as February, the networkwas just at 400 million strong.

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Did You Know You Can Hide Facebook Game Updates?

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by Nancy Myrland on September 8, 2010 It is interesting how far Facebook has come since Mark Zuckerberg and co-founders Dustin Moskovitz , Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin launched Facebook from their Harvard dorm room in February, 2004. Thanks to Facebook Poker Chips for the wonderful Flickr photo above.

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Social Media Insecurity: What to do When Online Activity Affects.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Facebook’s intended purpose when created by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 was for connecting college students with each other in their respective universities. I joined in early 2004 (I have a 6 digit Facebook ID, 102991, and signed up when Facebook was open to about 3 universities). I want to say yes. But I’m not there yet.