2. I think github is the most notable example.

3. Gotta reread that.

6. Oh come on, facebook, youporn, whatever. As I said, too vague.

>> 6. Oh come on, facebook, youporn, whatever. As I said, too vague.

Yeah, so he didn't call out a specific "type" of socializing, or draw up the wireframe for facebook here. But he just recognized there is a huge trend of people wanting to share their lives and communicate in near real time. I think he nailed it. Facebook and twiiter are just that. Even look at his move example. These days, you watch you movie or TV show, then laugh and comment on it with your friends not in the theater, but on facebook or twitter. I'd say he NAILED that prediction.

Facebook already existed with over a million users when he wrote this.

Perhaps, but they were all in college, it was a very different FB. This article was written my sophomore year of college, and I hadn't even had a FB account yet.

Github is not an open source webapp. It's a closed source web app that hosts other people's open source apps (web and not).

Github hosts git repositories.

Git is open source.

Github does a metric f%ckton more than hosting git repositories.

I think for #1, there are a number of hosting providers that match this description, such as Dreamhost, that offer a number of open source web apps that you can install with a single click. They manage them, upgrade them, back them up ... all you gotta do is pay them.

That being said, GitHub does indeed match the description, though I think people are thinking about the code they are hosting for other people ... but I think where they fit the description is with the fact that they are hosting Git for you (and making some money through enterprise services).