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what about altmans facebook example? where do google, yahoo, heroku, github, wordpress, engine yard, groupon, admob, tumblr, twitter, foursquare...fit?
by diminish 13y ago
what about altmans facebook example? where do google, yahoo, heroku, github, wordpress, engine yard, groupon, admob, tumblr, twitter, foursquare...fit?
- sama 13y agoI specifically carved out enterprise software and developer tools--I think this mostly applies to consumer Internet. As mentioned, Google is a good counterexample. Groupon and Foursquare very much touch the real world. I'd argue Yahoo made a mistake of not being enough in touch with the real world. Tumblr and Twitter are also reasonable counterexamples, although both were started before I think this trend became very strong.
- the_watcher 13y agoGroupon and FourSquare both clearly fit. As does Yahoo with its publishing. The rest all at least arguably fit in developer tools (except admob and tumblr). Twitter facilitates live reporting of events.