For years, Googles natural enemies seemed to be Microsoft and Yahoo. but as the search giant trounced those giants in the search space battle, its been slowly losing momentum in what may turn out to be the real war -- for the ad revenues that come from display and for being the king of the Web -- to an unlikely foe: the dorm-room-born Facebook.
Source:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/google-fears-facebook/
Calls for people to delete their Facebook accounts are gathering momentum.
Critics cite privacy concerns and plummeting trust in the company and its leader, Mark Zuckerberg.
Source:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/196212/kill_your_facebook_page_backlash_gains_speed.html
The OpenID initiative continues to gather momentum as Google joins Microsoft in announcing that they'll be a provider of login credentials. The problem may be that everyone's interested in providing ID, but none of the big companies are doing anything about consuming the credentials.
The full story is here:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081029-openid-being-balkanized-even-as-google-microsoft-sign-on.html
