Facebook, eBay play down Google+ threat

Silicon Valley star Sean Parker said that Facebook would have to blunder in a big way for Google's social network to steal its crown.

"Facebook would have to screw up royally and Google would have to do something really smart," Parker said during an on-stage interview that opened a Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.

Parker co-founded controversial music-sharing service Napster in the 1990s and his role in Facebook's rise was woven into the hit Hollywood film The Social Network.

"It is tough to compete with network effects," Parker said when asked his thoughts on the threat posed to Facebook by Google+.   More Read