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Perhaps it's just me, but this sounds like Joel is trying to recreate a web-based, centralized Usenet.
by spc476 16y ago
Perhaps it's just me, but this sounds like Joel is trying to recreate a web-based, centralized Usenet.
- derefr 16y agoWell, a part of it (the comp.* hierarchy), perhaps. In fact, this seems to be a pattern—Facebook is really just a new soc.*, etc. I wonder if there's a good pointer to potentially-profitable market gaps here: pick some part of Usenet, and turn it into a website that tries to centralize all discussion on that topic to itself.
- ojbyrne 16y agoNot sure that's a bad thing. Many innovations seem to be about recycling old communities for new mediums.