Yesterday, news of Facebook’s new hire, Paul Adams, an ex-Googler who was the most vocal critic of Facebook’s social strategy, served as a sign that Google’s social strategy could be quickly unraveling.
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Yesterday a presentation from the research lead for Google’s social team, Paul Adams, began spreading around the web. The presentation provides deeper insight into Google’s existing concept of “social” and could help us further understand what the company believes is weaknesses in Facebook’s armor as they prepared to launch a “Facebook killer“. There were a number of themes that were consistent throughout the presentation, all of which we’ve included below.
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