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What if Facebook was the Master Switch?

by Ian Rosenwach 3.21.2011

In this post I’ll combine concepts from two books I read recently – “The Facebook Effect” (review here) by David Kirkpatrick, and “The Master Switch” by Tim Wu. In “The Master Switch” (review here) Wu mentions Facebook three times, each in passing.  He doesn’t choose to go into how the FB phenomena will impact how […]

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bit.ly makes connections in the Twitter Network

by Ian Rosenwach 8.3.2009

Twitter URL Service Bit.ly Says No to Ads, Yes to Data-Mining News | Epicenter | Wired.com I’m intrigued by bit.ly. It may be easy technology to replicate (at least the URL shortening part), but they were the early entrant into a growing market. Their analytics is clearly their core. Twitter may have a giant Network, […]

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