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a new notion is lurking somewhere waiting to ride in the wake of a growing disgruntled pile of notion users
Computers these days have become thin clients for browsers (especially for the typical consumer). Except for the occasional open of Word or Excel, you're in your web browser browsing the web and have a tab open for Facebook. With new features like "sign into your browser" or ad retargeting across the sites you visit today, consumers are already being subjected to practices that Microsoft at least gives you the ability to turn off piecemeal if you so wish. They're just doing so at the operating system layer instead of the browser.
Think doing so at the operating system is more criminal than at the web browser or website level? Consider that Google Chrome is moving to become "Chromebooks" and that Android integrates Google Search. It's already happening and we take Google's "don't be evil" mantra for face value while continuing to poke Microsoft out of sheer habit.
http://missionsharingknowledge.com/flipkarts-the-big-billion...
Not that there's anything wrong with that or that the article itself is bunk in any way - just that it's ironic.
The other important point is that the 2/98 split is largely exaggerated but you could make it 10/90 and the point would remain valid.
It's sad that all VCs want to be "entrepreneur-friendly" publicly (largely to widen dealflow) but are largely the opposite behind closed doors.
rss is has no single "owner of platform" and poses no rate limits. twitter has both.
http://www.quora.com/Yishan-Wong/How-Google+-Shows-That-Goog...