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Facebook v. Google: Social networking gets anti-social

Social networking is becoming a little less social as Google moves into the space, eager to create its own small kingdom in the newly-connected social web with its own social network, Google Buzz. This has caused current 100-pound gorilla, Facebook, to strike back with AIM integration (launched today) and whispers of a Gmail competitor to come…

As explained, Google Buzz creates an instant circle of social contacts based on who you communicated with using Gmail and Google’s chat client. Once it

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