Posts Tagged ‘ecosystem’

Is Facebook Too Big To Fail?


If you think Facebook is too big to fail, think again and mumble the mantra, “AOL.” Network effect notwithstanding, bigger may not be better. As John Naughton writes in Guardian.com, “If you have too few friends then people think you’re a loser; but if you have too many, they think you’re either a social slut or a self-publicist.”

Google Is A Maker, Not Just A Taker


Joseph Esposito identifies himself as a traditionalist on copyright (“during the term of copyright, copyright serves the interests of the producer”), but he challenges the assertion that Google is “a taker, not a maker” in Publishing in the Google Ecosystem (in The Scholarly Kitchen)