Biggest Clanger of the year?

[rov1100]

Facebook could have been sold to Google for $5billion. He decided to say NO. Now Google have brought out their own version Google+ and will be in competition with Facebook. Has Mark Zuckerbberg made an enormous mistake?

[ChuckFickens]

"computer programme writers (?)"

That'll be computer programmers :)

[ummmm]

I was close then...

[EvianBaby]

I actually thought Microsoft had offered him 15 billion for it. Which he declined.

[EvianBaby]

Forget that, I've obviously missed the important points of this thread.

But no, I don't think he's made a mistake.

[ummmm]

Here's the programme if anyone is interested.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...berg_Inside_Facebook/

[Whickerman]

imagine a western scene - empty, only a tumbleweed blowing across the road.

That's the image equivalent of Google + , there's no-one using it!

[jno]

oh, is that what Google+ is? I know it exists, and I have a Gmail account, but they've never told me.

Going the way of Google Buzz then?

[joko]

well google+ hasnt exactly taken off... most people have joined... then never bothered with it...
if you didnt have yo wait for an invite to join they may have done better - shot themselves in the foot with that little policy - i think it just irritated people rather than made them excited to join...

there is nothing new abotu google +
myspace tried to be more like FB for a while, but it didnt really catch on... there are all sorts of others that havent really caught on either, like bebo and tagged etc

so no i dont think he has made mistake - unless he only wanted the $5 billion

[Khandro]

I think his big mistake was inventing Facebook.

[Gromit]

Google+ will not get ant significant traction because it does not offer anything new. Apple also tried to replicate facebook by adding social media to iTunes. iTunes is hugely popular because it powers iPods and iPhones but its add on social media, called Ping was a huge flop. I think Google+ will be the same.

Not selling facebook is probably quite astute. The fact that bigger firms are trying to steal the idea, and failing will only make it more alluring to investors or rivals.