With so many websites to join, users must decide where to invest significant time in adding their same connections over and over. For developers, this means it is difficult to build successful web applications that hinge upon a critical mass of users for content and interaction. Developers can now utilize public connections their users have already
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Some of my first computing was done on an Apple. OK, it was really a Franklin ACE 1000, which was an Apple II clone that Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak quickly and decisively crushed into oblivion via a lawsuit.
By the time I was finished with our Franklin (my brother still owns it), I moved into working on IBM and IBM compatibles and moved out of the “educational” computing world into the “business” computing world. I never caught the Mac fever.
Apple recently unveiled a redesigned iMac. Apple hopes to capitalize on …