links for 2007-10-21

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  Anil Dash: Blackbird, Rainman, Facebook and the Watery Web
  “Think of the web, of the Internet itself, as water. Proprietary platforms based on the web are ice cubes. They can, for a time, suspend themselves above the web at large. But over time, they only ever melt into the water.”
  (tags: facebook anil+dash blackbird rainman watery+web)


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  Unit Structures: The Directionality of Social Network Platforms
  “Although interest in the Platform may have peaked, we’re simply not going to see truly rich applications (that require substantial third-party investment) until Facebook starts giving back to those who use the API.” - Fred Stutzman
  (tags: fred+stutzman facebook myspace birectional+apis)


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  How to Change the World: Ten Questions with Fred Greguras of Fenwick and West
  Key legal questions for start-ups
  (tags: startup startups legal guy+kawasaki)


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  Internet companies | Social graph-iti | Economist.com
  “Mark Zuckerberg, ten days after turning 23, took the stage in a San Francisco warehouse and announced that he was opening up Facebook, the social network he founded at Harvard University, to outside programmers. Anyone can now build little programs, or
  (tags: social+graph social+networks economist good+memes+gone+bad)


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  Chinese Culture Versus German Culture » Adino Online
  Great illustrastions, showing the difference between Chinese and German culutre:
  (tags: chinese+culture adiono+online)


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  Infomania: Why we can’t afford to ignore it any longer
  More nonsense on ‘infomania’ which is just ‘infomration overload’ again
  (tags: infomania InformationOverload)