Google evangelist warns Facebook could be the next AOL or IBM | Technology | The Guardian

I guess that helps to explain why his current title is “evangelist”

Vint Cerf, Google's chief internet evangelist, and the man who designed one of the key building blocks of the internet, warned that Facebook's 'closed' architecture meant that it was risk of eventually failing to keep up with the public who want an open standard so they can easily jump from one website to another.

Speaking at an event organised by the Guardian, Cerf said that Facebook was at risk of following the path of companies such as AOL, whose original business model became irrelevant, or being rendered obsolete like proprietary networking systems once invented by the likes of IBM.

Google evangelist warns Facebook could be the next AOL or IBM | Technology | The Guardian