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Comments on: Zuckerberg: Be patient, we're opening up

The young Facebook founder concludes the Future of Web Apps conference by telling developers that his company will gradually continue to edge toward the "open" model that so many of them embrace.

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by Galaxy5 October 10, 2008 11:12 AM PDT
Did he have anything to say about hiring a guy who thinks torture is OK? Can't see much in that hire - all of Ullyot's "social connections" at DOJ are going to get replaced in a few months.

By the way: am I the only one who thinks it's ironic for a social networking company to hire an executive purely because of his flesh-and-blood network built from years as a Washington insider?
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by humanssssss October 10, 2008 11:27 AM PDT
Facebook will die.
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by Galaxy5 October 10, 2008 11:55 AM PDT
Facebook will die, that I'm sure of. I signed up a couple of months ago, and have been friended a huge number of incoming people who never had an account just in the past two weeks....

...which means it's probably about to take a dive!
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