Google's Social Strategy Shows Signs Of Unravelling

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em: Google's social researcher Paul Adams is joining Facebook.

Yesterday, news of Facebook’s new hire, Paul Adams, an ex-Googler who was the most vocal critic of Facebook’s social strategy, served as a sign that Google’s social strategy could be quickly unraveling.

First, Google postponed the delay of the product now known as “Google +1”, and then more reports came out that the product was slowed by infighting. Now one of the company’s most vocal social advocates has decided to jump ship and hop aboard Facebook’s warship, which continues to press forward at an incredible pace.

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