Facebook and Google: Clash of Titans

This is Michael Aggers' companion article to Manjoo's, where the former waxes wishful of having all social networking centralized. In passing, he also explains another benefit of online social networking:

"We are sorting out the entourage, or, to put it in a more utilitarian way, we are deciding which people are worthy sources of information."

A decision we wouldn't be forced to make in the pre-SN world and a vast contribution to a citizenry that begs for more participation regarding information.

The problem is that the internet, for all of its "final frontier"-ness is a hard place to make money, and Google and Facebook are ready to duke it out for your advertising eye. A great read, if for no other reason, to read a Google employee refer to the internet as barbaric.