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by mschenkel 3695 days ago
Totally agree. Facebook is dotcom equivalent of AOL. Hopefully it goes away.
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Free/open markets create powerful incumbents that eventually become big enough to turn themselves into a monopoly. There's no reason that the web wouldn't work the same way.
I could not agree more. It started out by copying myspace which copied friendster which copied...