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Article: Howard Rheingold Launches Electric Minds, Inc.

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August 5, 1996
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  New Media Startup Inaugurates The Social Web

MILL VALLEY, Calif., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Howard Rheingold, prominent author and futurist, and Randy Haykin, founding vice president of sales and marketing at Yahoo! Corporation, today announced the creation of Electric Minds, a new media startup company formed to pioneer the Social Web. The Social Web will be realized with the launch of Electric Minds (www.minds.com) the first company to marry content and community in forums devoted to science and technology, and their future effects on global society.

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