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The imitable danah boyd has some interesting thoughts on what this might mean. I really hope for the best but I worry that it might end up like mixing butter and margarine.
Besides danah's questions, I think the most painful point here will be the duplication of effort and the inevitable integration. Two development teams, two codebases, two networks, two admin teams, and one checkbook can spell trouble unless you have billions. 6A is smarter than the average cookie so I expect they'll do fine and I also realize that they did not make this decision lightly (if anybody ever does).
Also, if you're interested in building communities (or accidentally find yourself with one), you should take some time and read what danah has to say.
posted by Steve Jenson at 11:38 PM
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Good points, Steve, but I'd point out that it's actually *three* dev teams, *three* codebases, two networks and admin teams, and that's not counting TypeKey and other stuff. Thanks for the vote of confidence. :)
1:12 AM
It will be interesting to see what all you players do to leverage communities.
I remember back in my Xoom days that there was a big push for us to leverage the web page "communities", but except for Mahir it was all a big dud. So much has happened since then.
12:34 PM
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