Imitation is the soul of flattery, and the engine of Silicon Valley, Hence, Mark Zuckerberg Did it

Imitation is the soul of flattery, and the engine of Silicon Valley. Whatever can be copied, will be — especially when the copiers are pals. After a redesign, Facebook has made its status-update feature more prominent. It now asks users, “What are you doing right now? A sharp-eyed reader notes that those words are eerily similar to Twitter’s “What are you doing?” We wonder if this will pose any problems for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s newfound friendship with Twitter founder Ev Williams.

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