Friday, May 13, 2011

The Facebook/Google War: Facebook Stumbles out of the Gate

Now this is a ham-handed way of waging war against your hated rival.

In a twist seemingly out of a Hollywood thriller, Facebook hired a prominent public relations firm to try to plant stories harshly criticizing Google's privacy practices in leading news outlets. The efforts backfired when the firm approached a blogger who not only declined the assignment, but also went public with the offer.

The latest Silicon Valley drama has also evoked chatter of smear campaigns, secrecy and even Richard Nixon. It took the once-secret blogger known as Fake Steve Jobs to help sort it all out.

Wow Facebook as the Nixon Administration? I wonder if we are going to have a bungled break-in of the Googleplex in Mountain View California in order to dig up the sexual peccadilloes of Sergey Brin. I mean he is Russian so he must do some weird thing or another and Facebook must "unlike" that thing. The mental image of Mark Zuckerberg flashing the peace symbol above his head as he gets into a Facebook helicopter just came to mind as well.

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