Everybody loved Facebook. Even Google.
But it looks to me like the value of the super successful upstart company has peaked. After choosing Microsoft rather than Google for a partnership recently, big G dropped the bomb, Open Social.
It’s a different Facebook killer than I had expected.
Only a first step on the road to all things Google socially networked.
Facebook, you’re on notice now, you’ve got to rev the innovation machine up to red line and fast or you’re toast. Google’s OpenSocial is going to eat your lunch, and breakfast and dinner. At this point (1:00 PM PT), just about everyone except Facebook is signing onto OpenSocial, including MySpace …
Facebook will be forced to join the Google consortium of social networks and the compelling reason to join Facebook — that your friends are there — will be gone.
Once again Google is on exactly the right track. I love the OpenSocial concept.
… PS. My own Facebook traffic seems to be in decline.
Rick McCharles 