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You know how ‘friend’ is a verb now?
Last week, as he paced around the stage at the f8 Developers Conference, Mark Zuckerberg declared with wide-eyed optimism that Facebook was “helping to define a brand-new language for how people connect.” “When we started,” Zuckerberg explained, “the vocabulary was really limited. You could only express a small number of things, like who you were friends with. Then last year, when we introduced the Open Graph, we added nouns, so you could like anything that you wanted.”
And then he delivered the breathless payoff: “This year, we’re adding verbs. We’re going to make it so you can connect to anything in any way you want.” It was all part of “building this language for how people connect,” he said.
Whoa! Language? Connect? Slow down there, Poindexter.
READ MORE: The Rise of the Zuckerverb: The New Language of Facebook (The Atlantic)
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In social media, Facebook has been the leader everyone imitates for several years. Google (GOOG) tried a few times and came up short. But this month, that changed: Google+ is a formidable social media platform that matches Facebook in many ways and surpasses it in others, like realtime group video chat. Facebook quickly responded with its own video chat service, but couldn’t match Google’s. This back and forth is likely to continue for some time.
The question facing Google+ is whether the positive reception that beta users are having over the social service will cross over to a mainstream audience already familiar with Facebook. If better privacy is in fact a big factor for many people, then Google+ could easily become so popular enough that Facebook will be forced to improve its own privacy policies.
In the Google-Facebook race, privacy will determine the winner (CNN Money)
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Facebook Video Chat, announced at [yesterday’s] (debatably) “awesome” event, integrates Skype video calling into Facebook Chat. It isn’t perfect—the video quality is average and calling is restricted to one friend, for now—but the new feature makes video calling a whole lot more convenient for Facebook’s 750 million users.
You can get Facebook Video Chat today by navigating to facebook.com/videocalling . On Facebook.com, you can initiate your first call by opening a chat with an active, Webcam-equipped friend and clicking the video camera icon to start a video call.
And what a joy it would be to videochat with any of the fine geeks featured in the video.