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There once was a Golden Age of Television. During that time, some pioneers of the new media talked about exposing everyday people to opera, theater and fine arts. They talked about proving the sort of information that could build a better-informed electorate.

After a few years, the decision makers decided,  â€Screw it. Let’s give the masses I Love Lucy and get rich selling cigarettes and detergent.”

There was once a Golden Age of social media, when people talked about the ability to find useful, interesting, valuable people to talk with all over the world. Businesses of all sizes discovered that there was great

The Facebook (FB) fiasco has spooked a lot of tech investors, especially those holding shares of recently-launched social media companies with similarly unproven earnings streams. Perhaps itâs a nice opportunity to buy shares in Zynga (ZNGA), Yelp (YELP), Angieâs List (ANGI) and the like. Or maybe itâs more like the wake-up call Boo.com gave the market with its bankruptcy in 2000: the one that made everyone suddenly

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