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   by parm289 13y ago

   I agree that the technology is impressive -- after all, serving a billion users boggles the mind. I was getting at the faults of the platform, though. It seems that people are satisfied with Facebook's groups, chat, and events features, but
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   by parm289 13y ago

   You're right. In retrospect that sentence had a negative connotation, but I didn't mean it that way. By "providing" I didn't strictly mean selling. Facebook encourages sharing to learn as much as possible about its users, then enables adv
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   by parm289 13y ago

   If you don't mind me asking, what do you/we think would constitute a better network? You mention privacy as a key factor -- I agree, but rationally a free social network must encourage sharing to stock its shelves with user information to p
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   by parm289 13y ago

   Most of the comments here focus on Microsoft, Sony, and gamers; I'd like to (indirectly) bring the traditional cable co into the discussion. Last semester several Comcast reps gave my class a presentation which included a summary of their m
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   by parm289 14y ago

   Interesting article, considering today's Mailbox app [1] launch. The killer feature of the app seems to be the ability to process emails in your inbox, telling the app to send them back to the inbox at certain time intervals (later today,