Last year, my colleague Adrienne LaFrance enumerated all the ways in which Facebook, as a source of news, collector of ad revenue, and time-and-productivity sinkhole, is devouring the Internet. â??Facebook,â? she wrote, â??wants to be the portal by which people go online. And, increasingly, it is.â?
Amazon, it seems, has similar aspirations, but for commerce: It wants to be the portal by which people get actual thingsâ??all things, perhaps.
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