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Facebook Declares War on Digg

As Mark Zuckerberg's giant moves to conquer every realm of social media, one pioneer has taken a huge hit—Digg. Joshua Robinson on how Facebook is acting like mean old Microsoft.

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Mark Zuckerberg (Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP Photo)
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In its early years, Facebook was about social networking in the strictest sense—status updates, reconnecting with friends, and uploading photographs and links. But as the company has rounded out the user experience in the past year by pushing the power of voicing opinions on those photos and links, through a...

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