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...Over the next three or four or five years, this stuff is going to reach a much larger number of people," says Marc Andreessen, whose Netscape browser helped launch the first age of the Internet as a mainstream phenomenon. "It's just getting started." Andreessen describes Facebook as akin to AOL in the 1990s--introducing tens of millions of beginners to a new form of communication. As a co-founder of Ning, a maker of customized social networks, he's betting that many users will eventually tire of the one-size-fits-most approach. But he hastens to add that...
...have been avoided had Cup officials made sure that vendors provided backup servers for its ticketing website, through companies like IBM and EDS (which acquired the Web-hosting business of Loudcloud). "It's like running an electric utility, because you have to accommodate huge spikes in activity," says Marc Andreessen, a Loudcloud founder. When clients such as Foxsports.com and Fandango experience surges in online traffic, Loudcloud instantly provides backup servers...
...Silicon Valley, copy protection is seen as folly. Not only do geeks treat code cracking as a contact sport, but the software industry has been trying--and failing--to combat piracy for years. "Copy protection is theoretically impossible," says Marc Andreessen, lead inventor of the Netscape browser and currently chairman of the Web-services firm Loudcloud. "All you need is a piece of software that ignores the restrictions. These things are trivial to break...
...established music industry of the day has alternately resisted and then succumbed to every new technology since the player piano in 1896, users would seem to have the weight of history on their side. "A business strategy that alienates your customer base isn't a good strategy," says Andreessen. "The most productive way to solve the problem is to satisfy demand." CDs saved music in 1985; perhaps some modest fencing around the cash cow of CD burning can save the industry again in 2003. --With reporting by Daren Fonda/New York and Jeff Chu/London
...their banking. "When you start looking at 800 million people and start looking at one continent rather than separate countries, you start getting extremely excited," says an animated Makatiani, jumping up from his office sofa. "You say to yourself, ?You know, I can do what Bill Gates or Marc Andreessen or Steve Case have done in America.' Because you look at Africa as a United States of Africa, as one network; and then the opportunities are endless." At least if you're patient...