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Seven Years

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It’s been seven years since the first post on this blog. What started right after the dotcom bust of 2001, continues through the global economic meltdown of 2008. After some housekeeping in the middle of 2007, many of the early posts were removed and backed-up since they didn’t quite fit the Technobabble theme (it was just Arun’s Random Stuff at the time). Seven years ago, blogging and Blogger were still in their early days. Blogger was still an independent company. Now of course, blogging is mainstream and twittering is the in thing.

Thoughts on what the next seven years will bring to the web?

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Balaji Srinivasan said…
Sophisticated content recognition systems that will "recognize" what each "blog post" or "tweet" is and match it very accurately with your interest. current solutions suck at this. this will eliminate human need to keep tabs on subscriptions and go thru items even if they are of no interest to us.
March 1, 2009 at 7:06 PM
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