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  • Fly Or Die: G+ Or Facebook? Who Flew Higher?

    John Biggs

    Biggs is the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at... → Learn More

    Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

    F8 is afoot and it looks like Facebook schooled the Internet. But what about G+ and, most important, the new features added to head Facebook off at the pass.

    Erick and I discussed the pros and cons of both services, the various improvements, and, while I got a kick out of G+’s collaboration features, especially as a way to get work done, Erick was more impressed by timeline. Both services are wildly impressive – but only one can fly higher than the other.

    It’s too early to say who will win the social race or if it’s anyone’s race to win, but it’s an interesting exercise follow these guys as they try to grab the social graphs of millions of people.