Facebook hires top Google exec as COO

Rapidly growing online hangout Facebook Inc. is luring one of Google Inc.’s top advertising executives to be its new chief operating officer.

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Internet Party: What Happens If Google’s Parents Leave Town

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Facebook Slammed by Scandal. After the Rain (Scandal) VIDEO.

 

“Scandal you say?” Yeah, pretty much. The internet community has been in a building uproar over the controversial Facebook ad beacon system. A system that would completely compromise your security and privacy without you knowing. Facebook & it’s CEO Mark zuckerberg have publicly conceded deafeat… “We’ve made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we’ve made even more with how we’ve handled them,” Zuckerberg wrote on Facebook’s blog. “We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it.” aka “The other day I was thinking there is no such thing as bad pr, now, i kind of see it as, “We tried to trick you and take our money and that kept pissing you off and we thought it would like go away, but you kept yelling at us through the door like in that After the Rain video.”

MySpace + Google = LinkedIness. Is Facebook Ready to Rumble?

 

Google & MySpace are taking on the growing (threatening) Facebook crowd and the ENTIRE developing community.
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Why? Bling & because they can. How? Search baby. Lots & Lots of search.

That means more that simply “Rachel Ray Gum care” it means, when you are looking for people on MySpace, your eyes are gazing over tonns of ads, which Google wants to promote through its adwords system (adsense not so much.)

Oh… well, strange bedfellows. Hardly.

iF you remember in internet dog years Google & Fox’s MySpace inked a 900 million dollar ad partnership. iRemember at the time how funny it seemed that Google would pay that much for a company, Rupert and his Aussie crew paid a nickle under 600 million USD for. Hmmm, what was going on back then?Well, iFigure Google tried to work the social networking thing with lobbiest and behind closed doors as it built up a plan b, back-up plan is hugely popular google services like, iGoogle & Gmail 2.0whatever didn’t take off… well they didn’t not at the rate Google is used to anyhow, y’know like how their stock have tripled twice and then some (about 8x since the initial IPO.) ay ay ay.So what now?

Watch the deals unfold. Google announed this Open Social Circle thing the other day, it sounds pretty bland actually, but if you read between the lines it get V-a-r-r-r-r-y interesting.Google wants to double the size of the internet. Like.. that. iThink they announced the open social to see what we (the public) thought, not much, so they waited a day and announced MySpace, Bling! Like Lassie’s ears when Timmy drops in a well, we are listening, and this is what they said…

“MySpace, the world’s largest social network, and Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that they are joining forces to launch OpenSocial— a set of common APIs for building social applications across the web. The partnership spearheads an initiative to standardize and simplify the development of social applications. Today’s announcement underscores MySpace’s commitment to supporting standards that foster innovation in an increasingly social Web.

”That’s from the press release, here is what some of the key players said…

NYT Article, ” Jia Shen, the chief technology officer of RockYou, a top developer, said his company would still concentrate much of its efforts on Facebook. “Facebook is still the default social network you are going to go with right now,” he said.

MSNBC dice. “”In the short term, you could view it as Google and MySpace on the one hand, and Microsoft and Facebook on the other,” said Ray Valdes, an analyst at Gartner, pointing to Microsoft’s advertising partnership and recent investment in Facebook. “There are others yet to weigh in,” he added, including internet giants such as Yahoo!, Ebay and Amazon, all of which maintain a certain amount of “social” data on their users.

Facebook has become the focus of intense Silicon Valley buzz since it opened its site to outside developers in May. That move sparked a flurry of interest as professional and amateur developers raced to build new features that took advantage of the connections between users on the Facebook site.

However, Facebook uses its own proprietary technology for this purpose, meaning that applications written for its site cannot be used elsewhere on the Web. That contrasts with Google’s new OpenSocial technology, which seeks to establish a standard that can be applied across any network that uses it.”

And on and on… Everyone wants to make is MSFT & Facebook vs. Google & Everyone else… Well that isn’t a fair fight, especially when you throw myspace & google together with linked in, orkut, bebo, and god know who else.

The most intersting thing about this is WILL the google devloping source for open social become, an open source social? The quote from the FT/MSNBC article is right, history is betting against “forced Devlopement” crap, the Open Development Association cancelled its support of the Open Document today (why, i know now) yet, that was being pushed by one association… microsoft pushed .asp over .php javascript lives and java dies… its all very interesting and makes me want to think about italy for while where the us vs. them isn’t so important, its betting on the right horse, and making sure that the horse you picked it the one that will win, and lord knows fox has tricks up its sleeve, salude!

PS check the new firefox open source plug in for a great italian song that came on and inspired me… anyway, what r ur thoughts?

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Leopard is all hype.

 

Yup, iSaid it….and its true. Here it is Halloween weekend in 2007 and the best dressed costume of the year came from Cupertino. Leopard (OS X) is nothing special. At. All. iBlogged some digg crap calling it a “tipping point” dang, i’ve seen Malcolm Gladwell speak live, even met the man and i am willing to bet he IS NOT considering this marginal OS upgrade a “tipping point.” Or even gives a crap at all. iF Anything it gives MSFT time to kick the sh*t out of Apple again. Sure they got the momentum, SJ (Steve Jobs) will retire within this time frame. He came, he saw, he kicked f”ning ass. But Bill Gates did well too, they both did, and after Leopard, iPhone, iPod and the 45 nm paradigm shift has occured… iPredict Steve will retire. He should in my opinion, obviously he can do whatever he wants forever, he started Apple, he revived it, he made the keypad on my MBP glow, i owe him a foot massage and as awkward as that would be, more awkward still would for Steve to keep, “innovating.” Zaxxon high score reached. Time up. Not “game over…” Anything goes in bidness, but really, for this round, “time up.” Aside from a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, endorsed motor oil, or personal Hallmark division i don’t know what else the man can do, b/c he HAS DONE EVERYTHING.

“1,000,000 Strong For Stephen Colbert” Fastest Growing Facebook Group Ever

“One Million Strong for Barack” created 9 months ago currently sits at 381,000 members. “One Million Strong AGAINST Hillary” started 8 months ago currently sits at 488,000+ users. “1,000,000 Strong For Stephen T Colbert” created Oct 17th at 5PM currently at 796,819 users. Passed Barack in 5 days and Hilary yesterday. Join the group today!

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Microsoft gives Facetime to future with Facebook.

IT’S ABOUT F**KING TIME.

Salvdor Dali’s Classic Painting,

“Dream Caused…

by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate One Second Before Waking Up”, 1944

Google’s Gphone is an Operating System, don’t tell iLeopard.

It’s been the buzz of the blogosphere for last few months – the much-awaited launching of a Google mobile phone – with industry watchers haunting over incessant hearsays and supposedly leaked effigies of the legendary phone.Google has declined to reassert any further plans for the GPhone

But at the moment it looks that the so-called ‘iPhone killer’ could be one of the most hyped non-devices in record.

According to the recent information, the mobile phone Google engineers have spent two years secretly making is really not a cellular phone in any way but an operating system (OS), which is configured to bring all the tech majors’s online goodies comprising its highly productive advertising to mobile users.

Now the world’s most popular search engine is in quest of extending its authority of internet marketing to the mobile phone market.

The company desires to redeem on what it considers as the speedily rising mobile internet advertising market that is comparatively small nowadays.

It is making a mobile phone operating system, which it desires service providers and makers to set up in their phones. The phones cost could even be subsidised by the publicity, which appears on their screens.

A declaration about the growth is projected soon with handset using the latest software available as early as 2008.

At present, mobile phones make use of a range of operating systems to access the internet consisting arrangements from Microsoft and London-based Symbian. The software is assembled into the phones by makers. Google is projected to present its software free without charging phone manufacturers a licensing cost.

Together with the operating system, Google is likely to originate a unique browser for cellular phones and modify some of its MORE.

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M/i/Thoughts: iTotally think so. Why would Google get into anything physical ever? Apple did, yea well, it is what they do. And they kicked arse, they aren’t going to be beat there, at least iDon’t thunk so. Google, on the other hand is an advertising company that is screaming to rip itself from your desktop, laptop, and even your tv. Just watch. i 100% think the gPhone is a software that mimics OS X, (it might even be OSX??) and uses a whole lotta grandcentral/visual voicemail on it. Google maps rocks on an iphone right? Maybe that’s because of the gphone software, Maybe Apple will become part of Google, who knows, all iKnow is that Microsoft and Google are frenemies considering Microsoft does well, b/c they own part of Apple. And just watch the gphone is an idea, a cloud, a server in the sky, it is the next operating system that will transform people’s lives again, just don’t tell iLeopard Rar!

Should iStart a Facebook blog or MySpace Blog? Start a WordPress blog.

Where to start your blog? Facebook? MySpace? A YouTube Video Blog? Hells no. WordPress baby. There is much more functionality on having a wordpress.org self hosted blog, but WordPress.com is truly a great system. AND, unlike blogger, vox, typepad, etc. WordPress is open source. Just like parts of Leopard. So get wth the program and lets make the EFF, W3c, and that important committee that sets internet standards happy and keep it fresh, clean, and open source. Self-less WordPress plug, go go godzilla!

How tall is Godzilla?

Where does he go after a fight?

Why does he fight?

Has he been to France?

Is Godzilla really a male, can a god be male?

All this and more, beginning here. Godzilla’s favorite weblog, just follow the rabbit.

 

 

Mac OS X Leopard & Industry Fervor.

Thunk… Apple’s upcoming release of Mac OS X Leopard could provide a major boost to the company’s bottom line during the fall and could be bolstered even further by a new portable in January, according to a new report by analyst Gene Munster of investment firm Piper Jaffay.

The researcher maintained that Apple was “on track” to release Leopard by the end of October and that its timing could result in a surge of about $240 million to Apple’s calendar fourth quarter results, even if adoption rates were similar to those from Mac OS X Tiger, which launched in April 2005. At the time, 15 percent of Apple’s users bought either Tiger or a Mac preloaded with the software within six weeks of launch — a feat possible due to the Mac maker’s smaller customer base, but still widely believed to be a major accomplishment.

This uptake was expected to be higher as Apple’s overall number of users running Mac OS X had nearly doubled from 12 to 23 million, Munster said. And unlike the launch of Windows Vista in January this year, Mac buyers were less likely to dent sales by waiting to receive the upgrade with a new computer, even as many enthusiasts upgraded or replaced existing systems specifically due to the new features.

“While we do not believe many consumers delay the purchase of a Mac because of Leopard, we expect its new features and updated look to be positive for Mac sales,” the analyst wrote.

Thunk Different… You wont find many Radiohead fans on Facebook who disagree!

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