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Re:Ask YC: Why hasn't Microsoft acquired Xobni already? by gscott on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @03:01AM (#118778)
The solution to that would be make a version for Gmail.

That would piss MS off, they might buy them just to kill the Gmail version.

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Re:Ask YC: Why hasn't Microsoft acquired Xobni already? by ntoshev on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @08:11AM (#118864)
If it is really successful on Gmail, Google would make their own version, and Microsoft would know that.
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Re:Ask YC: Why hasn't Microsoft acquired Xobni already? by gscott on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @02:08PM (#119106)
I don't believe Google would. They make there money with ads, an add-on to there platform isn't going to make them any additional ad sales so there is no reason for them to do it.
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Re:Ask YC: Why hasn't Microsoft acquired Xobni already? by nextmoveone on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @04:36PM (#119188)
My guess is that Google actually would, and probably is; in an attempt to have a more social aspect Google is probably working on features that make it gmail part of a grander scheme including YouTube/Orkut/Blogger/etc..
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Re:Ask YC: Why hasn't Microsoft acquired Xobni already? by nextmoveone on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @09:08AM (#119675)
I seriously need to proof read my comments...
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