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13:11 | 09-05-2012 | Facebook, Internet, Lifeform | No Comments
Facebook also has a CEO concerned about rivals usurping it. If you had a huge pile of data about websites and services that might pose a competitive threat and billions of dollars in cash at hand, what would you do? Right: You’d buy.
проблема в том, что большинство из нас до сих пор видят Facebook, как некую социальную игрушку, что в той или иной мере обирает своих пользователей, — но отнюдь не как универсальный сервис завтрашнего дня:
Even if Facebook never adds another user, it will keep growing: It has become a fundamental substrate, a difficult-to-avoid component of any site or app that requires users to register—making it essential to nearly every major web innovation now and in the future.
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Is Facebook ever going to be cool again? That’s like asking “Is the phone company cool?” The interface may not be exciting anymore, but the network is very, very cool, in the disruptively awesome way that enormous things are: volcanoes, aircraft carriers, the New Deal.
fear me not.