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Re:What if Facebook isn’t so special after all? by jasonlotito on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @02:43PM (#3885650)
Just for perspective, Yahoo is 17 years old. Infer from that what you will.
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Re:What if Facebook isn’t so special after all? by cannuk on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @03:31PM (#3885905)
This is a good point and relates to what Stevenj said "As long as Mark Zuckerberg is CEO". I would add to that "and as long as he, and his collective team maintain the vision". Yahoo, over the years suffered from both of these missteps. Apple did to, and then the vision came back. We all know how that turned out.
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Re:What if Facebook isn’t so special after all? by stevenj on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @03:41PM (#3885961)
What was/is Yahoo!?

Was it a search engine? Was it a portal?

Is it a news site? Is it a media site? Is it a portal? Is it a tech company?

I think Facebook will always be a social network that's focused on building its core product(s) with good technical people.

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Re:What if Facebook isn’t so special after all? by hdctambien on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @04:08PM (#3886090)
Yahoo was a portal back when portals were the thing to be... until they weren't anymore.

Facebook is a social network site when that's the thing to be... until it isn't anymore....

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