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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Do y'all know the story of Open Social? It launched in 2008 and was Google's answer to Facebook's rapidly growing ecosystem Facebook Platform.
It was a fascinating time, right around when companies started to realize that our social graphs were valuable. The story involves Marc Andreessen, Google, Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and even Obama.
The Open Social story is a great example of how corporations will take a position of openness or privacy depending on their position in the market.