[monkeymace]

This is the perennial frustration with the immense power of the network effect, a power that all start-ups live and die on.

Unfortunately, us humans have a hard time banding together and forming enough consensus to 'jump ship' enmass to a new service. Especially, when the a lack of 'innovative features' on a given service barely registers on the pain scale.

Look at the internets SOPA protest, the entire integrity of the internet was threatened and we did something about it. But how can you generate enough support around: we need better mash-ups to view craigslist postings!

[politician]

Sometimes the companies do it to themselves: Digg succeeded in defeating the network effect. CL is certainly aware of that fiasco.