Google’s OpenSocial Is Not a Facebook Killer
New York Times
November 1, 2007
By Saul Hansell
For the last year, Sergey Brin has been campaigning at Google with the slogan “features not products” in an attempt to reduce
the sprawl of the company’s eccentric creativity.
This campaign may have gone too far, at least when it comes to Google’s new OpenSocial initiative. Google’s new programming interface that allows social networks to communicate with applications is a nifty add-on feature, but it’s not a product. And thus it doesn’t compete with Facebook, despite the dozens of blog posts that say it does.
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