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Re:Facebook Launches Twitter-Like ‘Subscriptions’ by pork on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @02:08PM (#2997267)
Straw man, but nonetheless, care to substantiate with examples?
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Re:Facebook Launches Twitter-Like ‘Subscriptions’ by sek on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @02:26PM (#2997329)
AOL is the best example and they are in the same market. IBM, Apple without Jobs and i think Microsoft's stock correlates also to these indicators.

The economic theory behind this is very good explained in this TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauce...

There are a lot of other examples of companies on their peak, acted defensive and then failed. I would count GM as another popular example, but the ones above are better when you compare them to Facebook.

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Re:Facebook Launches Twitter-Like ‘Subscriptions’ by rfrey on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @04:03PM (#2997658)
"Apple without Jobs" is already a data point for failed companies?
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Re:Facebook Launches Twitter-Like ‘Subscriptions’ by klausa on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @04:18PM (#2997702)
I think he meant 1985-1997 period.
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