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POPSI'm not sure what @jimmy_wales is talking about here I don't really relate to anything in this statement. I know that Jimmy Wales has accomplished great things on the web, particularly with wikipedia - and i have great respect for that. But this particular statement seems to be the kind of thing you say to an audience that really has no idea and will just agree with whatever you say. For one, a lot of Web 2.0 content is still about silly stuff, who is he kidding. And angry ranting blogs most certainly still persist - and that is a good thing! i hope those angry ranting blogs never go away...they are an important voice in the global conversation. And to say that the quality of the content is equal to magazines and television is just odd. I don't see the content coming out of the social web having any correlation to magazines or television that would justify any comparison, either good or bad...they're just very different.
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POPSIs Microsoft going to invest in Facebook? I'm no expert, but i'd be surprised to see Facebook take this investment from microsoft instead of from an independent investor or through an IPO that would enable them to remain independent of any industry players. I also think Microsoft should pony up the $10B and try to buy the entire company. If Microsoft owned Facebook they would immediately become much more competitive with Google.
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POPSDumb ass writer suggests Netscape will defeat Digg Everyone always acts like today's big companies will destroy new, smaller ones...but they fail to recognize that every big company today was once of the smaller ones. Doesn't mean you don't need great execution and luck, but the growth of our economy is contingent on new, bright, hungry companies stepping up and making things happen...that's how it always has been and hopefully always will be. Everyone like to point to Netscape as the example, but there's also Google. I think the key is to be inspired by and learn from both.
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POPSAIMSpace Could AOL effectively leverage their instant messaging platform into a social networking force? Right now i'd say who knows, but i think it's smart thinking by them. It's pretty amazing that through the years of decline of everything AOL related, AIM has kept going strong for them.
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POPSChatsum...cool! i want to integrate something like this into Clipmarks. direct chat with anyone looking at the same clipmark as you...maybe i should make a phone call to these guys.