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Re:Olark (YC S09) Brings Chat to Any Website - Whether You O... by Leon on Thursday September 03, 2009 @02:34PM (#803138)
I would like to refer the community to Zawinkski's Law of Software Envelopment[1]

"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

And propose a new, modified law for the current generation:

"Every Web 2.0 website attempts to expand until it can chat. Those Web 2.0 websites which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski

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