From the time Bret Taylor created FriendFeed, a social networking service that Facebook later bought, his design philosophy has been products are better when they are made social. This philosophical alignment was close enough for Facebook to buy FriendFeed, and integrate some of their features such as the Open Graph and the Time Line into Facebook.

In this interview, Bret Taylor answers questions on a range of questions, including what he thinks about Google Plus, and whether Facebook and Google Plus will ever share any data. Bret also shares his perspective on who owns the data that a user creates, what is the right balance between maintaining privacy controls and allowing data portability across services, what some of the new features of Facebook are, and how Facebook caters to the needs of its power users.