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07-01-2017, 09:43 PM
That time Amazon had a social network years before Facebook
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It may seem like Amazon is suddenly hungry (http://mashable.com/2017/06/30/blue-apron-ipo-amazon-threat?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) to take over the world, but the company has been focused on dominating the internet for a very long time, a fact we were recently reminded of via a profile on early social networking site PlanetAll.*
If you've never heard of PlanetAll, that's because it's one of the few social networks born in the '90s that came long before Facebook.*
SEE ALSO: Amazon's Whole Foods deal pretty much sunk Blue Apron's IPO (http://mashable.com/2017/06/30/blue-apron-ipo-amazon-threat/)
A couple of years after PlanetAll launched with a goal of connecting friends and family on the internet, Amazon acquired the company in 1998. Calling one of the features on its site a "smart address book," PlanetAll allowed users to connect with other groups around particular interests, offered news updates, horoscopes, and offered a calendar reminder service that worked with the then popular Palm Pilot mobile organizer. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/01/amazon-planetall-social-networks-history/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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If you've never heard of PlanetAll, that's because it's one of the few social networks born in the '90s that came long before Facebook.*
SEE ALSO: Amazon's Whole Foods deal pretty much sunk Blue Apron's IPO (http://mashable.com/2017/06/30/blue-apron-ipo-amazon-threat/)
A couple of years after PlanetAll launched with a goal of connecting friends and family on the internet, Amazon acquired the company in 1998. Calling one of the features on its site a "smart address book," PlanetAll allowed users to connect with other groups around particular interests, offered news updates, horoscopes, and offered a calendar reminder service that worked with the then popular Palm Pilot mobile organizer. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/01/amazon-planetall-social-networks-history/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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