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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

2005: Flickr. 2010: Twitter. A story I posted on Digg in 2005 crashed the “interesting” get-paid-for content site I was briefly testing. When I finally became serious about Twitter in 2010, I thought the basic homepage was so-so. This is a guest blog post by Stephen Black. This is his story. Ask Chiaki Williams.

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The Top 3 Social Media iPhone Apps

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Instagram launched in 2010 and just recently added the video sharing feature this past summer. YouTube was founded in February of 2005 and currently over 6 billion hours of video are watched each month on the site. Coming in third is the online photo and video sharing app Instagram.

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How Thanksgiving Lost Its Meaning

Ari Herzog

Small Business Saturday, begun in 2010, empowers you to buy locally. Cyber Monday, begun in 2005, is the internet’s version of Black Friday. Even if you do understand the meaning of Thanksgiving, even if you are truly thankful for what you have, how many of you spend money over the ensuing days?

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Evolution of Privacy on Facebook

Mindjumpers

I have found this chart that illustrates Facebook’s evolution of privacy from the early days in 2005 up until recently. During the last couple of years, Facebook’s default privacy settings have become more and more permissive – and often with great confusion to the users.

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Social Media: Making Business Fun Again | Bare Feet Blog

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Tagged as: #SBOSM , #WomensWednesday , bluelifestyle , case study , casey pugh , creativity , david pogue , fans , fun , jetblue , knowhcafe , knowhow , love , npr , smcjournal , socialmedia , star wars , usps 34 Tweets { 36 comments… read them below or add one } Roxanne Darling September 8, 2010 at 4:32 pm Hey folks!

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Can an Unknown Brand Become Word of Mouth? | Mindjumpers

Mindjumpers

Posted by Sara Hansson Jul 26th, 2010 Tweet Social media has been used as a channel for finding the audience and giving them something to talk about. The Indonesian headache reliever brand Dumin was introduced at the market year 2005. In this case it was all about creating a buzz around a name – the name of the brand to be exact.

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‘China’s Facebook’ Renren Seeks NYSE Listing [Data]

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Xiaonei (initial name for Renren, think of The Facebook before Facebook) was founded by a group students, including Wang Xing , Wang Huiwen, Lai Binqiang and Tang Yang, at Tsinghua University and Tingjing University in December 2005. Demographic and Traffic Data of Renren. Click for larger images. market in recent months.

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