Flipmeat and control
It’s an oldie but goodie:
Once the users take control, they never give it back.
Dave Winer said that in 1994. He just re-posted it the other day, but a lot of my readers don’t read Dave, and I like this so much that I’d post it here even if you all did. Ditto for this other Winer quotation:
There’s a difference betw 1. Creating easy to use blogging tools because you want to empower non-technical people to use a new medium to share what they’ve learned and believe, and 2. Writing yet another boring mashup tool because you want to make a million dollars with flipmeat based on a business model of tricking ordinary people into creating User Generated Content so the company that acquires you can put ads on it…
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