Questions about unique business models and products. So how did eBay know it would be a home run? How did google know it would offer a whole portfolio of successful services. This is the question that plagues me. Perhaps they are copycats that see something successful in the competition, mimick it, and then tweak it to enhance the features. Something like what the Japanese automobile makers do to the American automakers. Take something, improve it, and suceed.
It seems like it's almost impossible, if not fully impossible, to create something "new" these days. Basically everything we create is just an improvement on something else. Google on yahoo, internet on data sharing, refigerator on icebox. How do you distinguish something that is new or something that is merely improved? I beg this question because in creating my website people need to define if something is "new" or "improved". Perhaps it is too much of a grey area and I shouldn't give the user that power, but what choice do I have?

Bryan
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