And when that happens, argues MG Siegler, Google and Chrome start to look a lot like Microsoft and Internet Explorer.

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There was an entertaining and thought-provoking article about the simmering war between Facebook and Apple (AAPL) last week in TechCrunch by MG Siegler.

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"What happens to AOL after the spinoff will be one of the most interesting things to watch next year, I imagine, " said MG Siegler, a technology and new-media writer for the online TechCrunch network.

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After Zuckerberg and Page, the top 10 is rounded out with four more prominent Google staffers (co-founder Sergey Brin, engineers Vic Gundotra, Matt Cutts and Bradley Horowitz) and tech journalists Robert Scoble, Leo Laporte, MG Siegler and Gina Trapani.

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There have, since then, been some discussions (most notably by Technologizer and MG Siegler himself) about the seeming decline in the quality of some of the comments -- but I'm going to leave that aside for the moment, and talk about the larger issue in all of this that interests me far more.

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