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MrInBetween
08/31/09

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THE POWER OF PRINT is so quaint, like, say, THE POWER OF VINYL.
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Dickens_Ghost
07/07/09

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Another bellweather is Ebay. They have the opposite problem, it's their aquisition that makes money but the main site doesn't.

If it were not for Paypal Ebay would be underwater, deeply, right now.
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skahammer
07/07/09

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Do we believe that YouTube's financial struggles are a bellwether for a widespread failing of the net in general? Absolutely not!

Um...any thoughts on precisely why not? Because YouTube seems pretty bellwether-y to me, regarding online businesses that aspire to mass appeal anyway.
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Pinekatz
07/07/09

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The future of the future is dead.

I wish someone would explain to this simpleton how a company that hemorrhages money is/was worth almost $2B. YouTube is brilliant. I love it and its in my ear right now. But it never asks me for money. How can this fantasy be real?

I liked the users rating of goods/services. I'd probably use that in a BBB kind of way.

The data mining makes sense but does that make it hard for new companies with better product to jump in? Stagnation won't happen?

The medical-industrial complex is so much easier to understand. We await the next pandemic/catastrophe and then its biscuits again.
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Pinekatz
07/07/09

@Pinekatz: And just thinking again. I remember when:

1) Hating myself because I couldn't talk to DOS. I wanted to and tried. But I was dumb. It agreed.

2) Later, Windows 3.1 crashed 14 times every single time I tried to do anything. But it was still like taking my Mom's Buick out by myself. Rainbows.

3) I still used Yahoo as a search engine.

4) AOL was tits.

I have faith.
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Airvault
07/07/09

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That "twenty hours of video uploaded per minute" figure honestly amazes me, given that the majority of the videos uploaded are likely little more than fifteen seconds clips of someone blowing up a balloon with their farts.
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Sheila
07/07/09

@Airvault: Yeah, but I've watched about 80 short videos of Airedales. I miss my dog.
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skahammer
07/07/09

@Sheila: A Sheila sighting! So all the offerings I made at the shrine are finally working after all!

Bonus: I'm wearing pants right now!
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NotSafeForLife
07/07/09

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Stupid Corona SummerBration ad making me scroll down and forcing me to wait an extra 2 seconds before posting a comment.
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The Cajun Boy
07/07/09

@NotSafeForLife: I know, right?!?! You know when the only time I don't mind it is? Pay day!
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