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Building a Better Mousetrap or Not

Posted on July 03, 2008

Two realities/truths exist within the Web 2.0 landscape:1. It is easier than ever to take an idea and transform it into a start-up given that development, marketing and distribution costs have plummeted since the initial dot-com boom.2. The are no lack of blogs/bloggers more than happy to write about start-ups even if their prospects for success are, at best, uncertain.Case in point is identi.ca, which is an open-source, Twitter-like service that launched with a splash yesterday. Its potential - or shininess - has bloggers chewing over whether it is the next Twitter. Of course, this was pretty...

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