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Google vs. Facebook

May 16, 2008

Friday, May 16, 2008 11:37 AM/EST

Facebook is No Friend of Google's

It makes me wonder whether, in taking $240 million from Microsoft last year, Facebook felt like it needed to go against Google to keep the search vendor from getting ahead. Or perhaps CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discussed the matter and came to the same conclusion: that Google must be stopped from Internet dominance.

May 6, 2008

Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:53 PM/EST

Facebook Nets Google Exec to Fix Poor PR

Elliot Schrage, Google's vice president of global communications and public affairs, or to journos like myself the top gatekeeper to what Google corporate information I can access and when, has joined Facebook in the same capacity...

March 14, 2008

Friday, March 14, 2008 4:47 PM/EST

Adobe Bid Would Be Out of Character for Google

Should Google buy Apple, pairing its killer Web apps with a killer mobile device to battle Microhoo in the mobile ad market? Perhaps it could buy Adobe, as some analysts have speculated, to corral the market for rich Web applications...

January 3, 2008

Thursday, January 03, 2008 2:33 PM/EST

Scoble Unmasked as Facebook Digibomber

In the latest incident, Facebook disabled blogger Robert Scoble's account after running a script on the social network that screen scrapes data. Call Scoble the Facebook Digibomber...

December 19, 2007

Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:45 AM/EST

What Google Learned From the Beacon Brouhaha

I asked a top Google AdSense guy what he thought of Beacon and how Google would do such a system differently. The conversation, with AdSense Group Product Manager Brian Axe, took place at Google's Mountain View, Calif. headquarters last Wednesday...

December 5, 2007

Wednesday, December 05, 2007 1:05 PM/EST

Facebook Lets Users Darken Beacon

Facebook has agreed to let its users turn off its controversial Beacon advertising system, the latest back-pedal from a company seeking to generate more revenues through social advertising...

November 30, 2007

Friday, November 30, 2007 1:02 PM/EST

Facebook: The Annoying Friend

Beacon is like that friend you had back in college. He was okay to hang out with, but eventually the fact that he was always around to sort of know your business and talk about it willingly with others gnawed at you. He didn't understand boundaries. So you stopped hanging out with him, or you punched him out...

November 6, 2007

Tuesday, November 06, 2007 5:02 PM/EST

Facebook Ads Suck Life Out of Android

Take that, Google. In an industry where companies leapfrog each other constantly, Facebook has struck the latest blow by unveiling Facebook Ads...

November 1, 2007

Thursday, November 01, 2007 5:53 PM/EST

MySpace Joins the OpenSocial Frat Party

Sure didn't take long for MySpace to join the OpenSocial frat party. A day after Google was forced into introducing OpenSocial, an effort to provide a set of common APIs that will allow multiple social networking sites write applications, MySpace said it is joining the movement...

Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:25 AM/EST

What's Beyond Google OpenSocial?

Now that we've all had time to digest the fact that Google today is launching APIs to let programmers whip up applications for several networking sites, let's consider what's next.



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