Is Google Me getting closer? Maybe. Google has bought social networking start-up Angstro and hired its founder Rohit Khare as it continues to challenge Facebook. This follows some changes it made last week to Orkut, which is fast losing ground to its US rival. Read More
Facebook will today announce the addition of a series of new features on its website, which are thought to include a Foursquare-style ‘places’ function that can be integrated into third-part applications. This is going to be big.
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Google Wave we hardly knew you, much less used you or worked out what we were supposed to do with you. No Surprise then that Google announced last night that it was ending development of Google Wave due to, ahem, lack of “adoption”. Read More
The Google social networking story has moved on with the Wall Street Journal reporting that discussions are being held with games developers to make their games available on the service. Read More
More details are emerging that point to Google launching a social media website, called Google Me, to rival Facebook as it emerges the web giant is looking for web users to take part in a “usability study”. Read More
Techcrunch reported over the weekend that Google has ‘quietly’ invested between $100-$200m in social gaming business Zynga, noting that Zynga’s product portfolio would give Google a solid base of games on which to launch Google Games later this year, as well as the potential to build the coveted social graph, and an excellent platform from which to provide a boost for Google Checkout. Read More
With Google Buzz having proved more of a bust than a buzz the search giant isn’t hanging around licking its wounds and is instead pushing on and having another stab at social networking called “Google Me”. Read More
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