San Francisco has felt the effects of the Internet boom sooner and more intensely than almost anywhere else, but the wealth that the new economy has created is steadily fanning out and may generate the same tensions elsewhere.

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The Internet revolution has created a new economy that has not only challenged traditional employment and the notion of 9-to-5, but is creating monetization and revenue opportunities from the one thing that unites us all: The need to be social and to share.

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The cable industry continues to see stagnant TV subscriber growth, thanks to the weak economy, anemic new home sales, market saturation and the rise of Internet video options.

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Rather, follow-up interviews discovered that executives are just too busy making sense of the new economy and the implications of the Internet to have time for these tools.

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Thus do new and disruptive technologies, like those of the Internet, get funded, further goosing the American economy.

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