Google Wave gets canned after a poor reception, and the product designer Lars Rasmussen quits and Joins Facebook.
"another reason for leaving was that Google was becoming too unwieldy. He made several comments about Facebook's smaller size and how this made it easier to make an impact and get things done. While Google employs 25,000 staff members, Facebook has about 2000. "The energy there is just amazing, whereas it can be very challenging to be working in a company the size of Google"
There's that many Ex Googlers at Facebook, they now have their own name, "Xooglers" with allegedly 1 in 5 employees being an Xooglers!
Google Wave creator defects to Facebook - Google 24/7 - Fortune Tech
With that amount or Google Talent onboard, you suddenly get an idea of where Facebook is really going, and I think the Farmville Kiddie Social site image will soon disappear as it goes more mainstream and commercial, and morphs into a full blown search engine/portal. Which would take us full circle as we had the poor mans version of that in the days before Google.
So Google may be the number one traffic magnet for your site, but keep an eye on those analytics
For the first time in years, it looks like Google is about to have some genuine competition. 
