[encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money ]. Does Facebook have a permanent dominance of the future given their 500m users? [chuckle. ask Microsoft, Aol/Time Warner, and Google ] …. If every startup had to figure out the locations of every business , what type of business they were and where they were located on a map we’d have very few startups. There will be other layers including place information and open-source data. …

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Social Networking (The Shorter Version): Past, Present, Future