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HyprMusic on May 21, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Our XMPP services at DuckDuckGo

The convenience of Google talk supporting XMPP, for me anyway, was the ability to talk to other people already using Google Talk through the XMPP protocol, and the ability to use XMPP clients.

davidw on May 21, 2013 [–]

While we're talking about externalities, this is what's known as the network effect, or positive network externalities.

The value is not that someone has an XMPP server, the value is in having an XMPP server that everyone uses.

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