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This is the exact argument that was made by certain commercial vendors  
in the 1991-93 timeframe who tried to corner the web. They all failed.  
Mark McCahill referred to this as the "monolithic internet." It was  
rejected then; it will be rejected now.

On Dec 3, 2009, at 10:26 AM, Patrick Haggerty wrote:

[....]

> As an example: a user goes to comment on a blog post and is given  
> the same tools in the same configuration with the same terminology  
> and iconography as she had when she wrote a product review at  
> another web site, which was the same interface she had while posting  
> an update to a social network.

[....]

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Michael Fraase, senior editor/ecommunications manager
College of Design, University of Minnesota
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