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November 16, 2012

Will Facebook Be the Center of New, Mobile Internet?

Dieter Bohn, The Verge


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Earlier this week, Facebook held an invite-only event dubbed "Mobile Developer Day." The purpose of the gathering was the standard evangelism for the company's platform that I've seen many times before. Yet as I watched as Facebook's director of developer products, Doug Purdy, give the pitch for plugging Facebook into their apps, I couldn’t help but see a deeper vision of what Facebook believes the internet is headed, and how they plan to dominate this new landscape.

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