{"id":42317,"date":"2011-07-06T01:17:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T09:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=12698"},"modified":"2011-07-06T01:17:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T09:17:22","slug":"google-vs-facebook-browser-wars-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/06\/google-vs-facebook-browser-wars-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Google+ vs. Facebook: browser wars part 2?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an amusing story up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/06\/technology\/06google.html?pagewanted=print\">The New York Times<\/a> on the activity surrounding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/06\/technology\/06google.html?pagewanted=print\">Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s<\/a> Google+ account. Zuckerberg is of course just scoping out the competition. Here&#8217;s the heartening part:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So far, Google\u2019s new social service has generated positive comments from those with early access, in a turnabout from Google\u2019s earlier attempts to woo the masses with social services like Wave and Buzz, which were met with lackluster responses and concerns over privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Shankland, a writer for the technology news service CNet, said that Circles, a feature that lets people sort their friends into groups for more private sharing, was \u201cthe biggest improvement, far and away, over Facebook.\u201d Adam Pash, a blogger at Lifehacker, described the service\u2019s Hangout feature, which lets people video chat with as many as 10 friends simultaneously, as \u201cthe best free video chat we\u2019ve seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even Tom Anderson, a co-founder of MySpace who was famous for being every MySpace user\u2019s first \u201cfriend,\u201d weighed in on his Google+ page, saying the service \u201cdoes seem like it could take a bite out of Twitter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cWe\u2019re in the early days of making the Web more social, and there are opportunities for innovation everywhere,\u201d <\/b>said Jonny Thaw, a spokesman for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an amusing story up at The New York Times on the activity surrounding Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s Google+ account. Zuckerberg is of course just scoping out the competition. Here&#8217;s the heartening part:<\/p>\n<p>So far, Google\u2019s new social serv&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[303,1569,1578,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-google","category-netscape","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42470,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42317\/revisions\/42470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}