A talk for Snow Forum 2008 on the real history of social networks on the internet and how to make best use of it.

1. The History of Social Networking
Tom Hughes-Croucher
Yahoo! Inc

2. In the year 2000...
The Snowboarding joke
Snow Boarder + Ninja + Apple Mac = Web Developer

3. The Snowboarding joke
A wise man was once said “Give a man a snowboard...
... and you've distracted him for a day.”
“Teach a man to snowboard, and you can't get him to
work.”
http://www.frostyrider.com/jokes/
*Obviously this is joke true, since none of my other conferences have a “riding day”

4. What is a social network?
• What are the first web sites people think of a “social networks”?
• The big hitters
– MySpace
– Facebook
– Bebo
– Orkut
• Maybe some interest specific sites
– Boardpassions.com
– Drop19