Yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit , Founder’s Fund managing partner Sean Parker gave a provocative presentation entitled “The New Era Of The Network Service.” In it, he argues that so-called “network services” like Facebook (which he helped start) and Twitter will soon dominate the web, rather than “information services” like Google and Yahoo. It’s a very interesting idea, to say the least, and obviously you’…

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