• Social Networks

    Google's Friend Connect bad news for Marc Andreessen

    By Jackson West, 5:20 PM on Mon May 12 2008, 1,017 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

    By offering a suite of tools for websites to add a social network layer, Google isn't challenging established players like Facebook and MySpace, but instead sites offering customizable, turnkey social networks. In other words, look out, Marc Andreessen: Larry and Sergey just declared themselves the Microsoft to Ning's Netscape. [News.com]

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