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by pwmanagerdied 6169 days ago
Promotion of unimpressive new Facebook features hardly qualifies as something which "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity", which is, roughly, the most important measurement of weather something should be posted here.

Begone!

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Poster here. This "unimpressive feature" is at the heart of YC backed Posterous. Thought it would be interesting to see the comparison.

And if you want to talk about site guidelines, your comment is against them:

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Many sites have email as a feature. We're thrilled to see more attention being paid to that feature.

But our vision is quite a bit more than just that feature.

But our vision is quite a bit more than just that feature.

So is Facebook's. ;-)

It's easy to frame the marketplace as a zero sum game. Someone's win equals your loss and vice versa.

The reality is that model is a massive oversimplification, and thinking that way is value destructive.

I didn't say it was zero sum. I like Posterous quite a lot.
I found it interesting. This feature seems like it obviates some of the value provided by services like Posterous, at least for Facebook users.