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> It's not a "flop".

Agreed. It's a change in direction. Facebook is no longer on an easy, upward, unchallenged trajectory.

A business plan to compete directly with Facebook no longer seems foolish. Regardless of Diaspora's success, the overwhelming support of $200,000 of real money proved that there is a hungry market for a Facebook competitor; someone just has to build it.



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