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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

2005: Flickr. At the opening party for a machinima film festival, Jose Marques, a Portuguese venture capitalist friend, sent me an invite to Gmail. A story I posted on Digg in 2005 crashed the “interesting” get-paid-for content site I was briefly testing. This is a guest blog post by Stephen Black. This is his story.

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BMJ blogs " Blog Archive " Richard Smith: Get with Web 2.0 or become yesterday's person

Buzz Marketing for Technology

when directors used one camera fixed on actors on a stage: it was theatre filmed. t see ten years ago how the web would move by analogy from filmed theatre to films, but now we are beginning to see. Google, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook are all incredibly young organisations. We couldnâ??t We also begin to see how Web 2.0

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246: 9 Ways to Accelerate the Growth of Your Blog

ProBlogger

The first challenge I ran on ProBlogger was back in 2005 and I did it completely by accident. “Share on MySpace,” and all of those types of things going on. I can track all those spikes back to challenges that I’ve run on the side. Aperture is still aperture. Shutter speed is still shutter speed.

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