Kent Beatty on December 5th, 2009

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This infographic spans the timeline from 1995 up until today.  The really large social networks exploded into existence during the 2003 – 2006 period:

What’s next?  For one thing: Personal Branding.  According to Chad Levitt, [...]

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Kent Beatty on December 16th, 2008

The winners of Mashable’s 2nd annual Open Web Awards was announced Dec 16, 2008.  The Open Web Awards are a multilingual, international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. By way of an online nominating and voting process, the Open Web Awards recognizes and honors the top achievements of websites and services [...]

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