Mike Schroepfer, Vice President of Engineering at Facebook, spoke with Jason Kincaid at this morning's TechCrunch Disrupt conference. The topic of the conversation focused on many of Facebook's newest features, including the recently launched Friend Lists and "Subscribe" option, which lets users follow others' public updates in a model very similar to Twitter and Google+.

This led, of course, to a discussion of how much "inspiration" Facebook drew from other sites. Is Google+ now influencing Fa [...]

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