Q&A: Facebook Researcher Paul Adams on His New Book, "Grouped" - Liz Gannes - Social. Social technology researcher Paul Adams made waves in the past couple years as a thought leader and a hiring target.
Now he has written a book. Adams jumped to Facebook from Google last year, as the two companies were preparing to go head to head on social networking, his area of focus. This wasn’t just a random hire — Fortune recently called Adams ”one of Silicon Valley’s most wanted.” Adams joined Facebook after Google had started development on Google+, whose central concept of “Circles” of friends can more or less be traced to some of Adams’s thinking about how social networks should resemble real-life relationships.
That lineage is publicly known because a slide deck Adams made on the topic was widely circulated online in 2010.
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