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Sep29
Facebook's Crossroads
With the college social networking company new initiatives (sponsored feeds, sponsored groups, privacy issues and non-exclusivity), Facebook is poised to either dominate the student social networking scene *or* do the Friendster nosedive.  I have to admit that I have no idea as to which way this will go.  It appears to me that everyone else, including Zuckerberg, is clueless as well.

David Utter suggests that a Facebook clone that was college exclusive might now have that edge it needed to break into the market:

If it gained support at the developer's campus, as Facebook did at Harvard, a new site could draw off the younger crowd, piping them to it instead of watching them go to Facebook. Those who doubt that should recall how AltaVista was the search engine of choice online, until Google came along. Then, it wasn't.

Countless companies have gone from Hot to Not in a very short time. Netscape, AltaVista, Compaq, Sun, Atari, Friendster and more all have a sad story to tell.  Will we add Facebook to the list of has-beens pretty soon, or will they surprise us all and succeed.  Again, no clue here, but I welcome your input.

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