Facebook Versus the Web
Anil Dash furthers this argument in a post today:
Think of the web, of the Internet itself, as water. Proprietary platforms based on the web are ice cubes. They can, for a time, suspend themselves above the web at large. But over time, they only ever melt into the water. And maybe they make it better when they do.
So how long does Facebook have before it melts into the Web?
A: That won’t start to happen until you can take your friends (i.e., your social graph) with you.