The Internet provides one of our greatest opportunities to study the "invisible hand" of a (virtually) free market economy. The network owned by no one, yet everyone fosters a level of democracy previously unseen. Competition between online properties is therefore very interesting and transparent as seen in Facebook's counter to OpenSocial. This move should should spur yet more developer interest in the platform now that it will presumably grow beyond a single domain and will quell some of the comparisons made between AOL and FB. I say some because it still looks an awful lot like a ...
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