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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

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2005 marked the apex of Myspace. 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. Registering its one-millionth user that same year, the site became just “ Facebook ” in 2005.

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Boycott Facebook & Related Sites | Bare Feet Blog

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But the way that Facebook’s Beacon is setting cookies and sending my very specific online behavior (at selected sites) back to it’s databases not in the aggregate but assigned to my personal data, is going too far. There are so many socnets and microblogging/status update services out there. Let’s keep at it folks.

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Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I was recently cleaning out a cabinet in my apartment and tossed out a 2005 Yellow Pages that was in pristine condition. Reply AJ May 27, 2008 at 1:51 pm Dang mark-up… Reply maike June 2, 2008 at 2:49 am hi tamara, thanks for your aggregation. Watching real television online, too, is becoming increasingly more mainstream.

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An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

You really want it to be removed from the sites that Spokeo aggregates from? Facebook mania is like the tulip crash of 1637 – a giant fraud perpetuated on biz owners and consumers who will one day wake up, smell the Starbucks, and flee… Reply Tamar Weinberg May 4, 2010 at 5:23 pm Facebook was great in its simplest form in 2005.

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