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Google views Facebook as a threat to its business and has been trying to launch a social-networking service to compete with it.

~Daniel Lyons

Topics: Been Business Compete Facebook Google Launch Service Threat Trying Views

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Facebook's position with rival tech companies boils down to this: if you want access to all the information we've collected, strike a deal with us.

~Daniel Lyons

Topics: Access Boils Collected Companies Deal Down Facebook Information Position Rival Strike Tech Us Want You

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Remember the early days of the Net, when everything was going to be open and free, and we were all going to share information in a techno-utopia? That was great until people realized that their user data could be turned into gold. Now there are billions at stake, and nobody is playing nice anymore.

~Daniel Lyons

Topics: Anymore Billions Could Data Days Early Early Days Everything Free Going Gold Great Information Net Nice Nobody Now Open People Playing Realized Remember Share Stake Turned Until User Were

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Can anyone create an enduring business on the Web, where it's easy to build new companies, and when survival depends on the whims of fickle users? The big lesson of 'Digg' may be simply this: if someone offers you a ridiculous amount of money for a company that wasn't that hard to build, don't think twice. Take the money and run.

~Daniel Lyons

Topics: Amount Anyone Big Build Business Companies Company Create Depends Easy Enduring Fickle Hard Lesson May Money New Offers Ridiculous Run Simply Someone Survival Take Think Twice Users Web Where You

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Social gaming is not something Zuckerberg could have imagined back when he was creating Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004. The change began in May 2007, when Facebook announced it would let outside developers create applications that run on top of Facebook.

~Daniel Lyons

Topics: Announced Applications Back Began Change Could Create Creating Developers Dorm Facebook Gaming Harvard He His Imagined May Outside Room Run Social Something Top Would

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Nobody ever imagined how quickly the Android mobile-phone platform would take off - not even Andy Rubin, the Silicon Valley engineer who created it.

~Daniel Lyons

Topics: Android Andy Created Engineer Even Ever How Imagined Nobody Off Platform Quickly Silicon Silicon Valley Take Valley Who Would

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In addition to making Android available for free, Google also lets phone makers change the code and customize it so that an Android phone made by, say, Samsung has a different user interface than an Android phone from Motorola.

~Daniel Lyons

Topics: Addition Also Android Available Change Code Different Free Google Interface Lets Made Makers Making Phone Samsung Say Than User

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I often wonder what the world would be like if more companies were like Apple.

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Topics: Apple Companies Like More Often Were Wonder World Would

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What if the Big Three automakers made products that were simple and easy to use - imagine a car with a user interface made by Apple - while also constantly trying to push the state of the art? What if they constantly sought out new technologies and ideas, and incorporated them into their products?

~Daniel Lyons

Topics: Also Apple Art Big Car Constantly Easy Ideas Imagine Incorporated Interface Made New New Technologies Out Products Push Simple Sought State Technologies Them Three Trying Use User Were What If While

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Fixing mistakes is one thing. Apple's bigger strength has been its ability to keep improving hit products.

~Daniel Lyons

Topics: Ability Apple Been Bigger Fixing Hit Improving Keep Mistakes One Thing Products Strength Thing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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