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Jaiku and Buzz didn't exactly kill Twitter. Orkut didn't kill Facebook. Latitude didn't kill Foursquare. Google Code didn't kill GitHub. Knol didn't kill Wikipe
by ElbertF 16y ago
Jaiku and Buzz didn't exactly kill Twitter. Orkut didn't kill Facebook. Latitude didn't kill Foursquare. Google Code didn't kill GitHub. Knol didn't kill Wikipedia. Smaller companies still manage to get ahead of Google by innovating, it's not just a matter of big money.
- loewenskind 16y agoHow many of the things you mentioned are free themselves or also bankrolled by ads? Meaningless comparison as far as I can tell.
- zppx 16y agoI don't follow, why is it meaningless? Just to answer your question Github is mainly supported by a paid model, Twitter was free of ads until some days ago, Wikipedia is supported by donations, not sure about foursquare, facebook is supported by ads and revenues from its platfoorm.
- loewenskind 16y agoBecause what we're talking about here is Google dumping into other markets and ruining businesses. Of course their tactic wont beat free products on price alone, but that doesn't have anything to do with the discussion.