Digital Share-cropping is a term that has been on my mind a lot lately. Digital sharecropping is the exact equivalent of it's land-based agrarian counterpart. You give the means of production to the many while holding complete ownership over what's produced.

Facebook has emerged as the perfect example of that :

Fear Among Facebook Developers - Forbes.com

If a small application developer is under the illusion that he can win a fight with a big-brand widget, that’s a bad plan, says Gerd Leonhard, chief executive of Sonific, which recently launched a music widget on Facebook.

“Facebook is the place where you cut your teeth and see if you have value on lots of networks and platforms,” he says. “If you want to be number one you’ll be hurt by this development. Facebook is cool and everything, but don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”

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