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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

2005: Flickr. I was the creative director for a company doing online video and games. A story I posted on Digg in 2005 crashed the “interesting” get-paid-for content site I was briefly testing. Another friend, Dinnertube , started posting videos on Youtube in 2006. Foursquare? This is his story. 2007: Facebook.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

Hot or Not is rumored to have influenced the creators of Facebook and YouTube and nurtured millions of insecurities. Unfortunately, the site’s spike in popularity in 2003 caught the company by surprise. 2005 marked the apex of Myspace. Registering its one-millionth user that same year, the site became just “ Facebook ” in 2005.

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Acronis taps a new CEO - Jason Donahue

Koka Sexton

. “Jason comes to Acronis with a track record of growing software companies, public and private, and leading them to deliver great products to customers and great value to investors,&# said Ilya Zubarev, a member of the Acronis board of directors. a virtualization company that was acquired by IBM in 2005. and Apptix Inc.,

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YouTube Has Turned 6!

Mindjumpers

Tweet 6 years ago, back in May 2005, YouTube was launched and since then it has been revolutionizing the way in which marketing can work virally. Well thats really big considering the views increased by 50% since last year, as reported by official YouTube blog. YouTube’s first video was uploaded on April 23, 2005.

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