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Jakob Nielsen's weblog Links ok ok. it has real value. ok
Generic hardware is now so cheap that one can build the world's most powerful parallel computer at a ridiculously smaller cost than most companies' IT budgets. Similar parallel solutions are used by Google and other services that need scale.
Think big (which is different than the discredited slogan to "get big fast). With cheap supercomputer-grade hardware, it is feasible to solve the whole problem, such as offering all the world's films online, maps of every street, or searching all the world's documents.
For many years, we have known that comprehensive services are a win on the Internet, and even though I have mainly thought of this as a content problem (how to write about all aspects of a given problem), Kahle's points are an interesting enabler of certain types of comprehensiveness. Now we just need a way for the comprehensive services to collect money from users and a lot new businesses can bloom.