“Google Me” … Another Social Network Attempt By Web Giant? 1
Yes, it’s true, as confirmed by Adam D’Angelo on the Quora discussion boards. Major players within Google’s infrastructure are making headway on a new project, dubiously dubbed Google Me. Google Me is another attempt (Orkut, anyone?) at getting their foot in the door of social networking, possibly even cornering the market if their application will really rival Facebook.
I’m curious to see what direction this social network is headed, and am eager to get my hands dirty in its features. I guess we’ll see what the big G is up to as more details unfold.
I stumbled upon an interesting article highlighting the reasons why Google might not be the right people to develop a social network, check it out: Pandas and Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications…
I do think that even with their might, Google would struggle to launch a new social media platform, unless it has some major unique quality to set it apart from the existing ones.
Most of the big sites were just lucky enough to get there first. Even if someone designed a version of Facebook without all the flaws, it would be hard to get people to change allegiance.
That said, it looks like it might be all rumours… http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/8125…