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Re: Google starts linking social networks

RSA online — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:25:45 -0000

I think Digg jumped the shark when they broadened their appeal.

They were very much tech focused, now they are far more general. Slashdot may make the same mistake.

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Australian Web Directory — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:29:33 -0000

I think the problem with social networks is they have very short lives. I think Digg has already jumped the shark as have a number of others.

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SEO Brisbane — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:35:10 -0000

Where do these people get the time to join and read the stuff on these social networks. Methinks some of it must get outsourced to lower wage countries.

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Eric Sauve — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:46:11 -0000

I guess this is kind of like the google reader for social networks.

Be even cooler if you could pull in the data from your relationships.

Eric

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Joe Mahoney — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:42:10 -0000

Hi Robert, it's actually Brad Fitzpatrick, not Brad Fitzgerald.

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Tom Witkin — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:16:50 -0000

Interesting stuff as I, a digital immigrant, subscribe to more social networks and struggle to internalize the value. But, it also will influence our corporate decisions about how best to integrated and apply exrternal social networks -- or at least their functionality -- to the enterprise collaboration software we develop.

Re: Google starts linking social networks

william — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:15:34 -0000

If Microsoft would have done this we would up in arms….
Google does not control the relationships or the api……Just like they dont control any of the content that they spider that does not belong to them…..and turn this content that they dont own into billons of dollars for Google and very little for the original creators of the content….If goog is so good….why don’t they open source the entire project and create a non profit to run “Open” Social….They will not do this because they want to corner the market on the indexing of relationships that should be owned and controlled by the end users and not Google…Will Google ask me for permission to crawl my relationships ?

Can I delete my relationships from the Google servers…The data is on Google’s servers….and they are a company…so they do own the data…
....How is this better than facebook ?

Did Google contact any of the other companies that have social networks to ask them for their input ?
No….

Will there be a standards committee that allows end users and companies other than Google to have some input into “Open” Social..Dont hold your breath….its not going to happen…

Any initiative to deal with a “Social” Graph should not be run by anyone company…Google is a company and we should stop fooling ourselves that they are in business for the public “Good”.
Google is in Business to make money and this means that by their nature they will try to dominate with little to no regard to any notion of an open standard that would even the playing field for their competitors.

Re: Google starts linking social networks

Aruni — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:20:03 -0000

Have you heard of Austin based Minggl http://www.minggl.com? From their site: Minggl is a toolbar that brings your social sites together in one place, feeding you the latest activities of friends, no matter where you are on the web.

Re: Google starts linking social networks

Phil Butler — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:32:33 -0000

Robert,

As always, top notch insight. I wonder at what we might call "the cart before the horse" syndrome." In integrating all these services Google has done something fantastico, but should these services not be focused on the quality of data involved rather than how to "migrate" a beer to someone from Facebook to Twitter?

I think that if we begin a discourse on this issue, then perhaps we will have some data to traverse the web with. Not to seem to critical, but should we not focus some on taking this Web to the next level?

Always,

Phil

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James — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:27:21 -0000

I love the sound of this, certainly - I have at least one friend with five or six connections between us (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and her blog's RSS feed, as well as friend status on a few forum sites) and being able to copy relationships around would be very welcome.

(Rant from European about how evil Google is and how this breaks EU law in 3, 2...)

Re: Google starts linking social networks

cheezdog — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:19:54 -0000

<3 Web 3.0!!!

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macbeach — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:48:15 -0000

This is HUGE news, overshadowed by MSFT/YHOO for the time being. I don't think it an exaggeration to say:

"This changes everything."

Re: Google starts linking social networks

kevinmarks — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:38:08 -0000

The sample applications are up and running now:

http://code.google.com/apis...