google social networking | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:41:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png google social networking | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Google Plus: can it succeed? https://www.kitguru.net/channel/slyvia/google-plus-can-it-succeed/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/slyvia/google-plus-can-it-succeed/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:41:30 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=52269 Google's Eric Schmidt told reporters at the Allen & Co media conference in Sun Valley that Google Plus is becoming an integral aspect of the business. “The whole company is ramping up on top of it.” he said. Google Plus is a serious effect by the organisation to challenge Facebook in the social networking sector. …

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Google's Eric Schmidt told reporters at the Allen & Co media conference in Sun Valley that Google Plus is becoming an integral aspect of the business. “The whole company is ramping up on top of it.” he said.

Google Plus is a serious effect by the organisation to challenge Facebook in the social networking sector. Schmidt said that the integration is paramount to the success “The assumption is that everything will move over to using the Plus infrastructure over time. We’re trying to use the identity infrastructure to make the Google products really interesting.”

So far Google Plus hasn't been widely adopted, because Google have only sent out a limited number of invites, so they can continue with squashing bugs before the masses get their hands on it. He added “There have been a couple of privacy bugs, which were fixed within a few days.”

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Schmidt was also keen to point out that this is not a copy of Facebook, and it was never intended to be.

“If you read the reviews, people seem to understand that it’s somewhat different from Facebook. We have a somewhat different view of privacy. The privacy defaults are different, the way we handle it is different.”

Circles, a part of Plus which lets users select specific groups of people to share information with is also going to be shared between Gmail and Buzz. “All the products in the company will evolve the Circles function” Schmidt said.

He also said that Google have wanted to work with Facebook and Twitter, on sharing information and becoming linked together, but he said, to this point that the companies had not been able to agree on a plan.

Kitguru says: A new option for social networking? Taking on Facebook in this sector is very tough as they have such a firm foothold already.

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Google arming to challenge Facebook https://www.kitguru.net/channel/zardon/google-arming-to-challenge-facebook/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/zardon/google-arming-to-challenge-facebook/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:29:02 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=9657 The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google are holding talks with gaming companies with the aim to create a new competiting social networking service to go head to head with the ever popular Facebook. Google have been in discussions with the makers of online gaming which include Electronic Arts Inc's Playfish, Zynga Game Network …

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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google are holding talks with gaming companies with the aim to create a new competiting social networking service to go head to head with the ever popular Facebook.

Google have been in discussions with the makers of online gaming which include Electronic Arts Inc's Playfish, Zynga Game Network Inc and Playdom Inc. There are as yet no details as to when this new service might launch.

Google have already dipped their toes into these waters before as they control social networking site Orkut.

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Google are facing stiff opposition however as KitGuru reported earlier this week that Walt Disney are already in talks with Playdom for a possible takeover deal estimated to be worth around $600 million. This verifies the ties between ‘casual' online gaming and social networking sites.

KitGuru says: Facebook are well established, any competitior to this service will have a tough climb ahead of them.

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