Google is launching something to compete with Facebook and Twitter
 

Later today, Google is due to launch a social product that will compete with the currently popular social networks - Facebook and Twitter

http://www.techtree.com/India/News/G...09205-643.html

google wave arrived to india?

lol, it seems there will be some Gmail related changes to make it more "social"

Dont they already have orkut?

Yeah but beside in Brazil and India it isn't very popular

Another social network to have no friends in...

This is what I was thinking too.

There's no mention of wave in the article and it almost seems like "too much at once" to be rolling out Wave and another socialization product at the same time.

Personally Wave seems a bit much to me, I don't know if it really meets a need, but I guess time will tell on that. :2 cents:

google needs to plunk down the cash and buy facebook and get over with it

Google will take down Facebook. Mail IS the social network!

yeah its gonna be hard to compete with facebook I think

Google is continually launching, acquiring, and refining a collection of tools that can go way deeper than Facebook at connecting people. For example,

- Reader, it's so more a social media tool than a simple RSS aggregator
- Profile, there's your "who am I" page
- Mail, well, mail-- and today it will become Twittery
- YouTube, social video
- and so on

Once you get all the tools in place, you just need a "Kill Facebook" switch in Gmail -- and a benign little link in google.com -- that funnels users to a "Google Network" page, where they see a dashboard view of all the social media/network tools.

The nerds hop on the train today, and the normals show up at the station tomorrow.

wave is da shit

I can see Gmail being converted to GWave in the near future. I won't really likeit, but i'll get used to it I guess... 6 years of e-mail there.. I can't switch now!

Google is throwing so much shit at the wall some of it is guaranteed to stick.

Here it is: http://www.google.com/buzz

gay, just like FB and Twitter.

I wish I ran such a gay platform that would let me monetize over 400 million gay users. Gay.

It may well be that google is throwing a lot of money at this but Facebook. Myspace, Bebo have been around a long time and its hard to get surfers to change from something they are familiar and comfortable with using. I think Google will have a hard time converting people from facebook ect

Another thing is that if you look at social networking sites from a users view. It dosent matter how many new tools there are to use all they want is something that is user freindly and not confusing. Look at twitter its very simple but it does what people want it to do. Its a different story if you are a webmaster and want to monetise the users then we want as many tools as possible.
Webmasters tend to look at programs/software from their own perspectives as to how they should function and tend to forget about the every day surfers point of view

100% agreed. Remember when MySpace was the king of the hill? Friendster before that? Facebook poached a ton users from MySpace by offering a more uniform look and feel, a huge improvement over MySpace's absurd, skinnable interface. And then, if you weren't on Facebook already, your friends were, and you followed shortly thereafter.

I think that Google's suite of social tools will be unified by Buzz, and slowly but surely users will migrate from Facebook to Buzz, if not only because the same friends that they painstakingly added to FB are _already_ in their Gmail address book.

Yep, not everyone is on Gmail, but as I offered before, the nerds will get on the train today and the normals will be in the station tomorrow.

Google is just plain bigger and smarter than Facebook, and they can beat them at their own game. Today's move is just a small step in a strategy that has been orchestrated for quite some time now, and I think that in 16 months, Facebook will be dethroned.

:2 cents:

I think twitter should start a search engine

Bingo can't wait.

another thing for me to spam :)

That's interesting. I'm sure Google will do fine and the thing will be successful.

this will be quite interesting to see. i can't wait to see Google's twitter....

google bought Imlarge.com

Although I'm quite aware of Google's awesomeness, I believe this will take some time to catch on, if it does at all.

Look at Google Wave, for example. I got my invite in the first batch of tech offerings, but I can literally count the number of times that I've logged into it. They lured many techies to the Google Wave interface with their demo, but many, including myself, were quite disappointed that the majority of cool features were and still are only accessible in the sandbox.

They might have money and the resources, but they're too late, in my opinion.

I never liked MySpace, but yet love Facebook and Twitter.

Unless they provide some way of porting over established relationships that have been built over twitter and facebook (and the ease of use), Google buzz will be average at best.

And that's coming from a Google fan.

looks interesting to me :)

This social shit module will be disable in my account!

You don't seem to realize how ingrained facebook is in regular peoples lives. Whole families are on it, I don't see some gmail buzz changing that. Everyone hyped about twitter, and the nerds jumped on it, and growth stalled. They have a looooong way to go to ever get near facebook.

agree

google is making the same mistakes microsoft has been making, both of these companies only made money when they innovated, when they copy they fail.

google was smart to notice that youtube is the leader and said fuck it we will just buy them, this is what they should of done with facebook now, yeah it would of costed billions but this route is doomed.

google like microsoft is starting to chase everyone else, from their cellphone that should of been the next big thing and now this buzz crap.

its like MS with their zune and bing and a host of other stuff that we know failed or are on the way to failing.

innovation is the way to go

microsoft been saying that for years, but copying rarely works

Google going into social = failbot

I think buzz is a great idea but trying to call it "social" or using the same buzz words that are associated to facebook/twittter/myspace is a mistake.
It's a very different beast and has the potential to take email, particularly their email, to a great new level.

But it's not a social site, competitor in the social site world or anything like that. It's a different beast entirely.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Didn't Bill Gates Pretty much copy Something else and change the code a bit to make MS-Dos? Just a thought.

it wasnt out there yet

see if you learn of someones idea or if you go to france and u see someone doing something small scale and its doing well, and u decide let me do it on a large scale thats not really copying as noone knows about it, but when you try to make a zune to compete with ipods or a bing to compete with google or a buzz to compete with facebook you really have no chance

:winkwink:

No I dont think facebook will ever be dethroned I think it will change over time and as some other people have said they should have purchased Facebook and not tried to copy it. Love it or hate it Facebook is gonna be around for a very long time because users love it