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Google Creating a Social Platform to Change the Web

Started by Bob Hazlett · 6 months ago

Over the past 5 years or so, Facebook, MySpace and every other social network have been getting a lot of press about how their site(s) brings millions of people and information together.  We’ve come a long way and many of these sites have opened up the internet in ways we co ... Continue reading »

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  • Daniel J. Pritchett

    9 months ago

    Thanks for writing this! I've been meaning to look into the crystal ball for some insight re: Google's social plans and this helps tremendously.
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  • rhazlett

    9 months ago

    Google has done such a good job of indexing and providing search tools for the web, additions to their platform only make search that much stronger. I can imagine 5 yrs from now when we'll reminisce and laugh about how we used to log in to 4+ different social networks separately. I give MySpace and Facebook about 2-3 years max until doomsday for them.
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  • safeguy

    9 months ago

    while i agree that google will eventually try to bring this all together, i don't at all believe there's a) a masterplan or b) reason to get excited about it. there's been considerable hypothesizing as to why google does all this, but I really don't think they have a grand scheme outside of wisely keeping their hands in everything in case something becomes the next big money maker.

    and truth is, only a couple of those in your list of google's arsenal are the best at what they do. the future is, at least i hope, in open sourcing and not having a central repository for your networking.

    at some point, all this socializing on the internet becomes too much... but that's another conversation altogether.
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