I was just on the elevator a few moments ago. One of those VDT had a quick story about how Google was in talks with "others" to put together a social network to compete with Facebook.
My first thought - wow - talk about going after THE de facto standard of social networks! Facebook recently announced that they now have 500 million member. Firstly, this is a dubious number at best. How many of those are accounts that are deleted, but not REALLY deleted (by the way, Facebook accounts can be physically deleted instead of being made inactive - I've deleted mine). That not-withstanding, that is one WHACK of a lot of users. I have to imagine that this would fall under the "this is an uphill climb" scenario.
I would suppose that if there was any one that could put forth a challenge to Facebook it would be Google and their mystery colloborators.
I am going to very interested to follow this. I'm fascinated to see exactly how Google & friends propose to steal market share.
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