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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
November 2007—Google declares war.
Facebook is a relatively small and scrappy startup, but it's growing exponentially.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg managed to dodge a billion-dollar Yahoo acquisition just a year prior. Now, he must prove to his board that Facebook is more valuable under his leadership. He's succeeding.
The release of Facebook Platform is causing a frenzy of development, and Google desperately needs something to slow this budding ecosystem down.
Google's about to release Open Social.