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Re:The Horizontal Distribution Hack by ankurnagpal89 on Friday August 30, 2013 @05:23PM (#6304311)
I think the fundamental difference between our points of view is that I am attributing traffic on each individual application to be contributing to Meetup.com's traffic.

Each individual application is still owned by Meetup, it runs their application binary executing their advertisements, running on their payment processing, cross-promoting whatever content it is that they want to promote - what difference does it make if the application is called New York Tech instead of Meetup.com?

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Re:The Horizontal Distribution Hack by pigscantfly on Friday August 30, 2013 @07:34PM (#6304825)
I think one difference is that they will recommend New York Tech to their tech friends, rather than recommend a general system for meeting people with shared interests to all of their friends.
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