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Seems like Google has something cooking...Will facebook go the way of myspace...I think it will be difficult but they have the money...What do you think?
<span style="font-weight: bold">Google Me: Facebook-Killer or Another Johnny-Come-Lately?</span>
<span style="font-style: italic">A rumored new and/or improved social network by Google could hit Facebook right where it hurts.</span>
Writer: Mike Elgan, ITworld
Source: PC World
Digg founder Kevin Rose posted a tweet over the weekend saying: "Ok, umm, huge rumor: Google to launch facebook competitor very soon "Google Me", very credible source."
I'm not sure what the function of typing "umm" into a tweet is, but if true this rumor could prove, umm, earth-shaking.
Or not.
After all, Google has offered the Orkut social network for years, and it's been a relative failure for everyone except the Brazilians, who seem to love it.
Google Buzz, more of a Twitter than a Facebook, hasn't taken over the universe. And Google Profiles, which could have been a Facebook killer, umm, didn't kill anything.
One bit of speculation is that all will be combined -- Orkut, Buzz and Profiles -- into a super social network called "Google Me" (not to be confused with the documentary of the same name). Another rumor says just Google Profiles will be supersized into a Facebook-like service.
If Google Me launched this year, the timing might prove advantageous for Google. Facebook is suffering bad PR from a recent privacy flap.
Read the rest at PC World
<span style="font-weight: bold">Google Me: Facebook-Killer or Another Johnny-Come-Lately?</span>
<span style="font-style: italic">A rumored new and/or improved social network by Google could hit Facebook right where it hurts.</span>
Writer: Mike Elgan, ITworld
Source: PC World
Digg founder Kevin Rose posted a tweet over the weekend saying: "Ok, umm, huge rumor: Google to launch facebook competitor very soon "Google Me", very credible source."
I'm not sure what the function of typing "umm" into a tweet is, but if true this rumor could prove, umm, earth-shaking.
Or not.
After all, Google has offered the Orkut social network for years, and it's been a relative failure for everyone except the Brazilians, who seem to love it.
Google Buzz, more of a Twitter than a Facebook, hasn't taken over the universe. And Google Profiles, which could have been a Facebook killer, umm, didn't kill anything.
One bit of speculation is that all will be combined -- Orkut, Buzz and Profiles -- into a super social network called "Google Me" (not to be confused with the documentary of the same name). Another rumor says just Google Profiles will be supersized into a Facebook-like service.
If Google Me launched this year, the timing might prove advantageous for Google. Facebook is suffering bad PR from a recent privacy flap.
Read the rest at PC World
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