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cageface
on May 17, 2012
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All the oxygen trapped in a bubble
Any service that can garner 100s of millions of users can find a way to monetize.
I heard people say this a thousand times in 1999. I doubt it's any more true now than it was then.
kragen
on May 20, 2012
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In 1999 I think they were talking about millions or tens of millions of users, not hundreds of millions. The order of magnitude makes a difference. So does the existence of Google AdSense and its competitors.
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I heard people say this a thousand times in 1999. I doubt it's any more true now than it was then.