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>Famous examples are Google (search, mail)

Google doesn't charge users for search and mail, they charge companies to show advertisements to users. Wouldn't that make them B2B?

So any ad-based company is b2b? I don't think so. In nature of service, number of users, any aspect actually, they are b2c. You just charge them for their attention instead of money, and the cost is fractional.

Google's customers aren't the users. Google's customers are the advertisers. The users are the product being sold.

What a misleading title. I was all hopped up and ready to read about the nutritional benefits of various insects and why we should eat more beetles and grasshoppers :(

What do you find so awful about ASP.net?

You're gonna take the bloated, unpredictable, heavyhanded HTML, CSS and JavaScript the ASP.NET web forms spit out and you're gonna like it.

He probably doesn't know anything about .Net Framework in the first place.

I've worked in .NET for 3 years.

ASP.NET is extremely heavyweight, late to implement asynchronous calls, hardly as agile as web platforms such as RoR.

I think you need to look further into what ASP.NET actually is! Web Forms is all that you describe (and its often worse). Check out the MVC framework, which replaces the web forms aspect with an MVC one.

I've been out of the loop for the last year and a half. If you reference me to a succinct overview of what I'm missing, I'll definitely read it.

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