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Are App Stores and Social Media Strangling the Web? This content requires a paid GigaOM Pro subscription

  • Monday, December 7, 2009

The web experience is shifting from limitless search to preselected menus. Is that bad?

Is the Internet getting narrower, or am I just gaining weight? The rise of social networks and app stores have some web enthusiasts worried that the lush, open wilderness that made the Internet great is being paved over to give us an easier but more limited experience. Our proactive searching of limitless sites is being replaced by a more passive reading of preselected menus. “The use of apps on mobile devices is, at least for now, becoming the dominant [...]

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