Friendfeed the Next Google?!


	Friendfeed the Next Google?!

dgreplay

6-17-2008 10:16 PM

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friendfeed, google, social network aggregating

dgreplay says:

Steve Rubel makes an interesting argument. For me the last paragraph in the story says it all...the founders know how to scale a product like this; they were all team members at Google and helped to launch such products as Google Maps, Adsense, GMail and Google Groups.

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