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> Facebook's innovation was trapping users in a walled garden with omnipresent surveillance and advertising That isn't an innovation. They're AOL 2.0.
by _jal 9y ago
> Facebook's innovation was trapping users in a walled garden with omnipresent surveillance and advertising
That isn't an innovation. They're AOL 2.0.
- rbranson 9y agoEven if you don’t think the product itself is novel, the technology infrastructure behind Facebook is absolutely novel, from the news feed to TAO, their massive graph database. I’d wager to say TAO is the highest throughout OLTP database in the world. They were able to get ahead of MySpace, the market leader, because their technology was vastly more nimble and reliable.