In recent months, there has been much talk about the unbundling of Facebook and other networks. In the desktop world, Facebook had almost become a monopoly of social networking. When it filed for its IPO, it’s ambitions were not ambiguous: Zuck's vision starts from Facebook taking advantage of the Internet and ends with turning the Internet into Facebook. — Mahendra Palsule (@ScepticGeek) February 2, 2012 Throughout its history, Facebook’s ambitions have been explicitly obvious – it wanted to be the one and only service for everything in the online universe. Like a despot military conqueror in a game of Civilization, it went after everything – email, messaging, images, music, news, deals, location, games, and anything else it observed was a success for any other tech company or startup. It succeeded in some but … <a href="Continue">http://www.skepticgeek.com/socialweb/the-unbundling-of-social-networks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>
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