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Re:Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday by krschultz on Friday November 12, 2010 @08:34AM (#1897544)
A lot of people compare Facebook to MySpace, but isn't AOL also a good comparison?

Remember all the companies that were AOL keywords. Now they have Facebook pages. AOL has a messenger, now Facebook does. It just strikes me as AOL for the 21st century.

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Re:Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday by BrandonM on Friday November 12, 2010 @09:19AM (#1897696)
> A lot of people compare Facebook to MySpace, but isn't AOL also a good comparison?

"Facebook is the new AOL" is about as close as Hacker News gets to a meme.

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Re:Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday by gonzo on Friday November 12, 2010 @08:58AM (#1897624)
I actually got to pose the question (live and in-person), "Isn't Facebook the new AOL?" to Steve Case last week.
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Re:Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday by chopsueyar on Friday November 12, 2010 @09:16AM (#1897680)
"Actually, it reminds me of Prodigy." - Steve Case

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_%28online_service%29

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Re:Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday by gaius on Friday November 12, 2010 @09:30AM (#1897734)
And...? Don't leave us hanging!
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Re:Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday by chime on Friday November 12, 2010 @09:13AM (#1897673)
What was his reply?
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Re:Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday by pitdesi on Friday November 12, 2010 @09:34AM (#1897749)
How did he answer?
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Re:Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday by iantimothy on Friday November 12, 2010 @02:04PM (#1898738)
So the interesting question to me is, after learning about the history of AOL, why would Facebook want to pursue what on surface seems like a similar strategy.

What's different this time with Facebook? And are the threats to its growth, success and longevity in principle the same as AOL's.

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Re:Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday by jbrennan on Friday November 12, 2010 @11:21AM (#1898117)
I wonder, then, if they'll ever enter into web search. It would make sense, given the seeming herd migration of engineers from Google (though I don't know how many were from Search).
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