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The Web We Lost – Anil Dash:

“This isn’t some standard polemic about ‘those stupid walled-garden networks are bad!’ I know that Facebook and Twitter and Pinterest and LinkedIn and the rest are great sites, and they give their users a lot of value. They’re amazing achievements, from a pure software perspective. But they’re based on a few assumptions that aren’t necessarily correct.”

Really good post from Anil Dash. Important reading if you want to understand a bit more about the ongoing skirmishes between Facebook / twitter / instagram / tumblr / etc.