Facebook and Google+ : Facebook owner, Mark Zuckerberg finds fans on Google+

Written by Sandeep Nehra

Any idea who is the most popular Google +, the company a new social networking service? Ashton Kutcher, maybe? O Lady Gaga?

In fact, this title is currently held by Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook – the service itself that it wants to challenge Google +.

As of Tuesday evening, Zuckerberg had about 35,000 people after its upgrade in service, more than anyone in an extensive survey of Google + profiles Social Statistics, an external service. His fan base than that of Larry Page, one of the founders of Google and its newly appointed chief manager, who was only 24,000 people following him.

Google + is less than a week old and still not widely available to the public. But access to the service, which lets people share photos, links, status updates and video chats with groups of friends, and is in high demand among early adopters who are willing to play with its features. That includes Zuckerberg, who reportedly signed on to watch his new adversary.

Neither Facebook nor Google has confirmed whether the profile of Zuckerberg was real. But his account is linked with several Facebook executives are also on Google +, including Bret Taylor, chief technology officer, and Sam Lessin, a product manager, suggesting that it is authentic. Zuckerberg has not put anything that can be seen by the general public. His own description in your profile page says simply: “I do things.”

“It makes sense that he wants to see,” said Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, one of the founders of technology blog The Next Web and built the service of social statistics on a whim. “Everyone wants to keep an eye on the competition.”

The visit of Mr. Zuckerberg the turf of his rival may be an indicator that social networking wars are coming to a new field. Many large companies such as Google, Apple and Microsoft, are eager to tap the potentially lucrative treasure of social data and other information that people share in these services. Facebook has long reaped the benefits of having access to such data, helping to run their ads more precisely.

“The battle for the future of the Web is the social experience,” said Ray Valdes, an analyst at Gartner Research.

Facebook also has a larger world map of the connections between people. You can not transfer data from one of the connections of Facebook Google +, so most users will need to rebuild the list in the new service. On Tuesday, Facebook blocked an add-on for Google Chrome browser that was created by an external programmer and gave people a way to import your contacts from Facebook in services like Google +. Facebook said the add-on violated the terms of the service organization.

Google is hoping to take your new social network for the iPhone and iPad through applications it submitted to Apple. In the past, Apple has let the applications created by Google remain in limbo, without the approval or rejection of them.

So far, the new Google social service has generated positive feedback from those with early access, in a twist of Google’s previous attempts to attract the masses with social services such as Wave and Buzz, who met with mediocre responses concerns about privacy.

Stephen Shankland, technology writer for CNet news services, said the circles, a feature that allows people to resolve their friends in private groups to share more, was “the biggest improvement by far, through Facebook “. Adam Pash, a blogger at Lifehacker, Hangout describes features of the service, which allows people to video chat with up to 10 friends at once, as “the best free video chat we have seen.”

Even Tom Anderson, co-founder of MySpace, which was famous for all users of MySpace’s first “friend”, weighed on its Web Google +, saying the service “looks like it could take a bite out of Twitter.”

But Google + become a mainstream success? Jeremiah Owyang, an industry analyst with the Altimeter Group, said it was clear that the success of Google + extend beyond its initial test phase, in which invitations are limited largely shared between the people in the technology industry, bloggers and journalists. (As it did with Gmail, Google gave the first users of the possibility of inviting a limited number of other users. It is not clear who invited Mr. Zuckerberg.)

Facebook says it is not worried about competition.

“We are in the early days of making the Web more social, and there are opportunities for innovation everywhere,” said Jonny thaw, a company spokesman.