Google Friend Connect Rains on Ning $500 million Social Network Parade
By DONNA BOGATIN • May 12th, 2008 • Category: BIG PICTURE
While Ning was touting just weeks ago that the $15 billion valuation Facebook was no viral loop turnkey social network match for the Marc Andreessesn half-billion valuation disposable social network platform, the Googleplex was prepping the unveiling of its kill-all social app, Google Friend Connect.
Andreessen’s Ning partner, Gina Bianchini, saw MySpace and Facebook coming, but apparently not the “serious“ Google social challenge::
It would be very difficult for MySapce or Facebook to shift gears and directly offer a competing service to us. They have a huge set of technical challenges just scaling what they’re already doing, and we have spent three years building a serious architecture and technology lead for what we do. She says one of her engineers compared that kind of course correction with “swapping out the engine of a 747 during midflight.”
REALLY? No create your own 60 second social network problem for the GOOGLE ROCKET SCIENTISTS! The Google FREE call to social network action, for each and every Website in the world:
Easily insert social features to make any app, any site, any friends, a reality…Websites that are not social networks may still want to be social, and now they can be: Any site can have social components without hiring a programming team or becoming a social network.
WHY is Google being so benevolently free with its latest “free” service?
David Glazer, Google: When more people use the Web, more people see the ads that Google runs on Web sites.
RIGHT, such as the Google Ad Sense that “runs on,” Andreessen’s Ning, the non-proprietary, non-lucrative, competitor Google-dependent, monetization “running” Andreessen’s $500 million Ning valuation.
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