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Can 150 Million Facebook Users Be Wrong? (Plus, What Apps Should We Build?)

 
The blogosphere is all a Twitter with the news, via a blog post from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, that the social-networking powerhouse has ratcheted up its user base to 150 million people. Whoa! Are those folks doing anything useful or just wasting their time? (link)

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