Wily Tim O’Reilly and crew are at it again with an interesting report on Facebook as an application platform. Although the report is likely fascinating the comments appearing on the post at O’Reilly Radar are insightful. The discussion about the meaning of the long tail being fat or thin is eye opening, not to mention the notion of comparing Facebook as a platform to Linux etc.
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