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The Platform Wars Continue

It should be no surprise that Zuckerberg and Page have taken such stances.
May | 22 | 2012

May | 22 | 2012
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Larry Page will be on Charlie Rose tonight. In this trailer, Page talks about Facebook’s lack of openness.

Page laments Facebook’s lack of openness and hopes that Facebook will “open up” its platform to the mighty search giant.

My take: He can keep waiting. Facebook isn’t completely open by design—nor was AOL for that matter. You think that Facebook would be worth nearly $100 billion if Google could just index its data and allow people to circumvent it altogether?

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