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Re:Cloning Is Lame. Google Should Do It To Facebook Anyway. by chengas123 on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @10:24AM (#1471485)
I'm so sick of hearing about Diaspora. These kids don't have any product yet and as far as I can tell there is no reason to expect what they're building will be successful.
Re:Cloning Is Lame. Google Should Do It To Facebook Anyway. by stcredzero on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @10:52AM (#1471580)
These kids don't have any product yet and as far as I can tell there is no reason to expect what they're building will be successful.

Most of the challenge will be in marketing. If they can get a hipster fringe to adopt it and give them real value, they can use this to bootstrap themselves. (Much as Facebook did with the college crowd.)