{"id":110647,"date":"2011-07-01T16:11:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T11:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=110647"},"modified":"2011-07-01T16:11:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T11:11:50","slug":"facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-joins-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/07\/01\/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-joins-google.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Joins Google+"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although Google+ is still invite-only, its number of users is climbing. Of course, Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are on the social networking, but there\u2019s also another tech heavyweight using the new Google feature: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. This may come as a surprise since Google is claiming Google+ will be a contender to Facebook, but as the saying goes, keep your friends close and your enemies closer, reports Geek.com<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, citing VentureBeat<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg is most likely checking out the inner workings of the new venture, sussing out what the competition has to offer. Though Google+ is still \u201crolling out\u201d and adding new members, it\u2019s still somewhat exclusive. Google sent around invites to many members of the tech industry media on Tuesday and then briefly opened up invites for a few hours last night. Those who were already on Google+ could invite friends. However, that didn\u2019t last long before Google+ was over capacity again and not offering any more invites.<\/p>\n

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We don\u2019t know who invited Zuckerberg to the Google+ party, but people who are currently on Google+ can search and find him. I took a quick look and found his profile, which was very bare (although so is mine). Zuckerberg doesn\u2019t look very happy in his profile pic, either. Could it be that someone\u2019s grumpy about a potential threat to Facebook? All Zuck\u2019s profile says as of now under the \u201cAbout\u201d tab is \u201cI make things.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s always a possibility that this is someone pretending to be Zuckerberg, but it looks pretty convincing. Plus, Zuck has 13 friends in his circles, many of which are Facebook employees, including Facebook\u2019s CTO Bret Taylor, software engineers Zach Rait and Arjun Banker, director of product Blake Ross, product designer Francis Luu, and product manager Justin Shaffer.<\/p>\n

Will Zuckerberg actually use Google+ as it\u2019s intended, or he just getting an inside peak at the competition?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This may come as a surprise since Google is claiming Google+ will be a contender to Facebook, but as the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10912,29155,29154,11945],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}