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Zuckerberg: Google developing 'their own little edition of Facebook'
Friday, 30 December 2011 22:40

 

While Google authZuckerbergorities, from CEO Ray Page on down, are all aflutter over Google+, Mark Zuckerberg thoughts Google new web 2. 0 site as "their own little edition of MySpace."

At least that's what he told Charlie Increased in an meeting that shown Exclusive evening on the seasoned send out journalist's PBS show.

When Increased requested him if MySpace planned to engage in a "flat out" program war with Google, Apple business and Amazon over the next Several years, Zuckerberg said MySpace thoughts Apple business and Amazon more as partners, while knowing Google is more of a competing.

"People like to talk about war. There are a lot of techniques in which the organizations interact. There are real problems in there, but I don't think this is going to be the type of situation where there's one business that benefits all the stuff," he said.

"Google in some techniques is more aggressive and is certainly trying to build their own little edition of MySpace," he added. "When I look at Amazon and Apple business, I see organizations that are extremely arranged with us. We have a lot of talks with individuals at both organizations trying to decide techniques in which we can do more together."

Facebook leading operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, who also took part in the meeting, said the business has a "huge relationship strategy" which moves around offering the sociable technological innovation to many other press and technological innovation organizations.

"We're focused on doing one element incredibly well. If you look at other organizations, all of these organizations are doing a lot of different items but we're still, as we increase, doing exactly one element," she said.

 

Google released Google+ in late May as a major project designed to give Google a healthier location in the web 2. 0 market place, as well as provide a tool that unifies Google products by offering them with a sociable giving part and, to an extent, a frequent identity for Google people.

However, Google+, which has about 40 thousand people, has a extensive road ahead to match up against MySpace, which has more than 800 thousand people, and rules the web 2. 0 market place around the globe.

When requested about an IPO for MySpace, Zuckerberg said that there is definitely a way to take the business open, mostly to incentive its workers and people, but that no choice has been created on when that will happen.

"We just treatment greatly about all the workers and the people who have been there with us," he said.

Zuckerberg also downplayed the role of MySpace and other sociable community methods in the Arabic Spring, saying that the credit for those actions to affect long-standing authoritarian routines should go to the individuals who have took part in them.