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Re:Too Minty? on Tuesday September 15, 2009 @02:09PM (#824370)
That's a scary loophole...
Re:The Fragile Internet on Thursday August 13, 2009 @11:38AM (#760998)
Geocities is a good example of a past bottleneck - we agree there.

Facebook might not be a perfect example - I think Twitter is probably better since it's more of a platform.

Re:The Fragile Internet on Thursday August 13, 2009 @10:34AM (#760839)
If a URL shortener goes down - it's likely that all of the enabled URLs go down as well. I don't think we've had a system like that before. If bit.ly went down - half of Twitter would become meaningless.

A DNS or ISP disruption can usually be more localized. I would argue that it's much easier to disrupt a Twitter or a Facebook than it would to take down multiple DNS servers or multiple ISPs. It would take less resrouces and time to create a global disruption by taking down Twitter than it would to take down an ISP.

Re:The Fragile Internet on Thursday August 13, 2009 @10:05AM (#760775)
The point is that a full scale disruption isn't necessary for an impact to be felt around the globe - tr.im is the prime example for that. It doesn't even have to be a malicious change.

It's more about the structure that has evolved - an inverse pyramid of communication vs. the traditional web. At the bottom we have services like Facebook and Twitter with a plethora of applications on top. This adds greater pressure for those foundational services to protect themselves and some have done a better job than other (i.e. Facebook vs. Twitter).

Do Social Networks Stifle Innovation?

http://vukicevic.blogspot.com/2009/08/do-social-networks-stifle-innovation.html

It's widely believed that early sharing and the potential for early criticism of rough ideas may stop perfectly good radical innovation in its tracks - that social networks that support this instant criticism are bad for innovation. I'm not convinced.

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Re:World War II All Over Again (Google vs. Apple) on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @04:00PM (#742004)
That could work - Yahoo is US, Microsoft is UK (and traditional Western Europe). AT&T could be Italy, Motorola is Eastern Europe. Nokia makes a lot of sense as Japan since they seem to have their own set of priorities but are kinda cooperating with Android (Google)...
Re:World War II All Over Again (Google vs. Apple) on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @03:51PM (#741974)
It's a playful representation of one key lesson.
Re:World War II All Over Again (Google vs. Apple) on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @03:41PM (#741944)
You scared me for a second. The Japan-equivalent is tough to figure out. Maybe HTC, Sony, Nokia...not sure yet.