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Elsa
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Shocking find in my archive. It's a pitch for VC for early blogging...

"...It is for this very reason that I have started thinking about Weblogs as our beachhead product in the publishing space. If we can addict consumers with high-frequency posts, they will give egoboo back to the contributors – addicting them as well. The result will be a highly addictive platform that people love to read and post to..."

and

"When I posed this question to our resident weblogs expert (aka Biz Stone, GENIUS), he had the following observation...'

 

This is pre-twitter. 

From Wiki: Along with Jack Dorsey, Stone holds the patent for inventing Twitter.[14]

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Sue Ellen
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Had to look it up. Egoboo is ego boost. 
Interesting way to addict people, boost their ego. 
Wonder where Neptune was. 

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@sue-ellen great question.  Neptune in Aquarius - addicted to the internet / technology.

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Sue Ellen
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@elsa Thanks for taking the time to look it up.

 They had that one called!

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