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HISTORY OF FACEBOOK
Yesterday marked the 6th birthday of the social networking site Facebook. What started back at Harvard — and initially only open to college students or those with email addresses that ended in .edu until September 2006 — Facebook is now the fastest growing social network with over 400 million people using it to [...]

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HISTORY OF THE IPAD

Question: How can you have a “history” of a device that was just announced today?
Answer: This has been the longest anticipated unannounced product in history, or at least Apple history. It has been a veritable speculation-o-rama.

Question: I don’t get the iPad. Isn’t it just like a giant iPhone?
Short answer: Yes, it’s essentially [...]

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Information Reformation

by Bill Petro on October 29, 2009 · 0 comments

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I wrote the following article over a dozen years ago when I was a technology evangelist at Sun. Back in the mid-’90s, we were experienced the early part of the first wave of “The Web.” Today, with the advent of Web 2.0 technologies we’re seeing an explosion in different dimensions. Wikis, social networking, mass collaboration, [...]

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History of Facebook

by Bill Petro on February 4, 2009 · 3 comments

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Today is Facebook’s 5th birthday. Where did it come from, and what is it now?

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Information Reformation

by Bill Petro on October 31, 2008 · 0 comments

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I wrote the following article about a dozen years ago when I was a technology evangelist at Sun. Back in the mid-’90s, we were experienced the early part of the first wave of “The Web.” Today, with the advent of Web 2.0 technologies we’re seeing an explosion in different dimensions. Wikis, social networking, mass collaboration, [...]

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History of the iPhone?

by Bill Petro on September 7, 2008 · 0 comments

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HISTORY OF THE IPHONE?
I’ve written a couple of articles recently on the Apple iPhone 3G, one on what the first day of the iPhone 3G was like, and the other on how the launch of this 2nd generation device has turned out after the hype has worn off, some two months later. You can find [...]

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EMC World and next gen communications

by Bill Petro on May 19, 2008 · 1 comment

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I’m at EMC World in Las Vegas this week and will be writing daily articles about the event on my other blog Techtrends. But I’ll also be using an emerging technology to report on this important high-tech show: Twitter. This is a “micro-blogging” technology which permits writing easier, faster, and shorter stories to those who [...]

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