Dare Obasanjo thinks they might be, and I think he's on to something. In comparison terms, which outfit has been releasing services that might actually be useful?

• Google, with things like *cough* open social *cough*
• Amazon, with S3, EC2, and now SimpleDB

On the personal connectivity point, Facebook has it all over Google. On the "useful stuff for business" front, Amazon is hitting home-runs, and Google is off playing with things like Google Docs.

Over the next couple years, I think Amazon and Facebook are going to be a lot more interesting than Google.

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