So the big news Thursday concerned Google's (GOOG) social networking initiative OpenSocial, a standard that will allow other social networking sites to basically adopt what Facebook's got.
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When someone came along who actually managed to compete with, and even frighten Google (GOOG)— namely, Facebook — how is Google competing?
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News source: Google Blog

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