Google no threat to Facebook

Parker founded questionable music-sharing service Napster in the 1990s and his role in Facebook's rise was woven into the hit Hollywood film "The Social Network." "It is hard to contest with network effects," Parker recounted when asked his thoughts on the threat posed to Facebook by Google+. Google wants to get Facebook users to change allegiances, then do the same with those peoples's online pals, and those peoples's buddies, and the like explained Parker, who owns part of Facebook. A challenge to Facebook is "power users" behind attention-grabbing content turning to rival online locales to flee drowning in the flood of posts, according Parker. "I do not think privacy is Facebook's largest problem," Parker asserted, touching on a subject for which Facebook has been criticised. "The largest problem is the surfeit of info that power users are overwhelmed with," he continued.

"Maybe the threat to Facebook is the power users have gone to Twitter or Google+." He supported Facebook improving tactics for its roughly eight hundred million users to more selectively share posts, photos or other info with each other.

"Sean is actually one of the great foretellers of our industry," recounted Saleforce.com founder Marc Benioff, whose web business software start up has bloomed into a multi-billion-dollar poster kid for cloud computing. "Facebook, in a number of ways, is eating the Web," he continued in a talk at Web 2.0.

"Facebook is starting to become a vision of what the next-generation purchaser operating software is." Online auction power-house eBay and its flourishing money transactions service PayPal also see robust "network effects" providing defense from Google's growing commerce platform. "I agree with Sean, network effects are potent things," eBay Manager John Donahoe expounded in an on-stage interview at Web 2.0. Google has an incredible online search and advertising platform and Facebook a widely welcomed social platform, while eBay has an entrenched "e-commerce" platform, according to Donahoe. "The wall between ecommerce and retail is flaking surprisingly fast," Donahoe expounded. "The massive outlets are banging down our doors and exclaiming 'The world is changing ; we need help'." EBay last week launched PayPal Access online identity programme and an open X.commerce platform for payments to let merchants little or big tap into Web age cashless transactions. X.commerce is designed to match merchants with independent developers building cutting edge ways to deal with check-outs at internet sites, inventories, working out taxes and other sides of running shops with online outlets. In the meantime , PayPal Access will let folk go shopping at web sites anywhere online using names and passwords from accounts at eBay's generally used finance transactions service. EBay boasted that there are rather more than one hundred million PayPal accounts in 190 markets internationally. Google related last week that its net social networking challenge to Facebook is growing fast and has topped 40,000,000 users. "People are heading to Google+ at an amazing rate and we are just getting started," Google founder and CEO Larry Page recounted in a revenues three-way call. Page expounded Google+ style social features will be "baked in" to the Web star's other offerings. The Net giant on Sep twenty opened google.com / + to the general public as it ramped up its challenge to Facebook.