It's a land grab. They had to gain users and build social/advertising groups quickly. I think there's something going on behind the scenes with Twitter and/or Facebook that terrifies Google right now. Otherwise they wouldn't have made such a bone headed move. They know better. The deployment strategy was a carefully calculated risk in my opinion.
That's very interesting. What could Facebook possibly do to terrify Google? Maybe I'm not being creative, but I can't think of anything offhand. I'd love to hear some conjectures.
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It's a land grab. They had to gain users and build social/advertising groups quickly. I think there's something going on behind the scenes with Twitter and/or Facebook that terrifies Google right now. Otherwise they wouldn't have made such a bone headed move. They know better. The deployment strategy was a carefully calculated risk in my opinion.
That's very interesting. What could Facebook possibly do to terrify Google? Maybe I'm not being creative, but I can't think of anything offhand. I'd love to hear some conjectures.
Maybe Facebook moving into the e-mail area scares Google?
http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/05/facebooks-project-titan-a-f...
This would put Facebook in the middle of even more conversations/social interactions.