Google to unveil ‘Google Me’ social networking plans shortly
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said that its much talked of social networking plans, widely dubbed “Google Me”, will be unveiled later this autumn, but the suggestion that it has a Facebook killer in the works appears wide of the mark.
Speaking at the Google Zeitgeist conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, Schmidt did not go into great detail according to a report on WSJ.com, but he gave a road map to the direction Google is heading with social media.
The idea of Google Me appears very much to be leaning to allowing users to access in one place all of the social information and projects they have across the web. That place would be their Google hub – their Google Me homepage.
So imagine a place where you can monitor your own social media activity and that of your friends be it on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
Google is for instance working on ways to let people know, for instance, when a particular video is being watched by many of their friends on YouTube in the same way they would find out that a lot of people liked a post on Facebook.
For this to happen of course, Google would need access to Facebook’s data and Schmidt spoke about this. Good luck with that one.
Schmidt wants Facebook to open its data and for a two way flow of data to flow between Facebook say and Gmail, but as we all know Facebook doesn’t allow this to happen. Twitter would like similar data access, but no dice.
“The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information,” Schmidt said.
Other ways? What is he going around to Mark Zuckerberg’s house with some heavy set geeks? Wait I don’t think such a thing exists.
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It’ll be interesting to see how long it is before Google, Facebook and Twitter pool their open graph data together to create full graphs – throw in some eCommerce (Amazon, eBay) and you’ve got a full consumer profile.
Couple that with traditional market research information and you’ve paired online and offline to create an integrated consumer profile.
Scary.
@Jed couple that with CCTV cameras, my location information and knowledge of my favourite sandwich bar, and Eric Schmidt will know what I ate for lunch. Double scary.
they all ready know what i had 4 lunch, what they don’t know what i’ll be having for lunch tomorrow
that’s what they want to know
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