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How has Word Lens taken over the world? It is an awesome technology, but there are many awesome technologies, and not many of them become amazing businesses. (However, that said, there are awesome technologies like the Word Lens in this class of YC).

When Facebook started off people just said it was MySpace for college students. Those with imagination that joined early now reap the benefits of vision.




Vision? For a third generation social network?

I certainly wouldn't use that word. You wouldn't say a dating site had vision. Facebook falls in that category. Awesome achievement, but no real vision and it's going into no other fields, like google did for example.




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