One difference thiugh is every one of those tools are accessed via a unique url. Facebook.com is the only way to access the other.
It would be interesting if, like facebook, you coukd do nothing on google without signing in. further upon sign in, if you were given a more cohesive iGoogle profile through which to access these services.
Clearly what google lavks is not the message board, but a cohesive ux to tie these all together - but only if thats how these services were of value, like facebook. But they do have intrinsic value as standalone services, thus the user base they do have.
Its a risky situation to try to glue all the already valuable services google has together with some ambiguous social duct tape. Im sure that would fail.
Creating yet another site where we can create an account wont work. Letting us share through some service like disco is a single channel through which to share info. That competes with twitter.
Additionally they cant provide a business profile as linkedin owns that space.
It seems as though they need to find a way fir people to create an adhock social network for various activities and provide the tools that support this group.
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I agree the author is onto something substantial.
Google is a bunch of great add-ons without a message board.
Facebook is a great message board with mediocre add-ons.
Google needs a message board.
Buy Reddit.
Buzz.
Also: Google Groups, Google Docs, Knol, Wave, searchwiki, blogspot, youtube comments, Lively http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html , Google Reader notes, Google Shared Spaces http://sharedspaces.googlelabs.com/ , aardvark http://vark.com/ , Google Moderator http://www.google.com/moderator/ , and probably some I missed. All places where people can publicly share and talk together online, none of them a Facebook contender.
One difference thiugh is every one of those tools are accessed via a unique url. Facebook.com is the only way to access the other.
It would be interesting if, like facebook, you coukd do nothing on google without signing in. further upon sign in, if you were given a more cohesive iGoogle profile through which to access these services.
Clearly what google lavks is not the message board, but a cohesive ux to tie these all together - but only if thats how these services were of value, like facebook. But they do have intrinsic value as standalone services, thus the user base they do have.
Its a risky situation to try to glue all the already valuable services google has together with some ambiguous social duct tape. Im sure that would fail.
Creating yet another site where we can create an account wont work. Letting us share through some service like disco is a single channel through which to share info. That competes with twitter.
Additionally they cant provide a business profile as linkedin owns that space.
It seems as though they need to find a way fir people to create an adhock social network for various activities and provide the tools that support this group.
typed from phone, forgive typos