Facebook's Purchase Is Bid to Own Social Media

Washington Post by Chadwick Matlin | Aug. 16, 2009 (Opinion)

Facebook just bought the rights to nearly everything you do online. And it cost them only $47.5 million. Full Story »

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Posted by: via Craig Newmark - Aug 15, 2009 - 6:18 PM PDT
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 by Kaizar Campwala - Aug. 17, 2009

The thoughts of the author, without expert perspective. or other evidence to back up his claims.

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Interesting look at the ongoing evolution of the internet. Who can keep up? Is the author correct, is it going to boil down to Google vs. ... More »

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 by TheKitesurfCentre - Aug. 21, 2009

interesting story that is well written

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