Today, Google System repported that Google is sponsoring a new social network project at the Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute whose initial goal was to “rethink and reinvent online social networking”. Google seems to be doing this mainly due to failure of Orkut, which is popular only in India and Brazil. I’m a great fan of Orkut.
The network, titled Socialstream, is able to “draw content from a variety of sources. Socialstream would be based on a unified social network (USN), a single network that provides social data to other sites as a service. A service model allows many social networks to be linked together, letting them share both content and the nature of the relationships of the people who use them.”
Socialstream emphasizes improving social connections by making it more efficient to communicate with, share with, and view the social content of all the people in a user’s online social network. Socialstream provides a compelling user experience because it aggregates content across many different networks so a user has a single location to discover new content and communicate. The goal of Socialstream is to present social information in a way that ties it to the person who posted the information, and not the site from which it came.
Take a closer look at SocialStream :
Waht is the status of Google’s social network. Seems like a good strategic move in terms of allowing Google to serve ads to their users!
Wow, what an out of the box thinking? I’m so excited about the completion of such unique type of social network that serves us the way to unite all other social networks. Hoping for the success of the project!
Leave it to google to come up with another great idea. I hope they succeed with this project.
Google has a piece of pie in everything.
Wow! great, Google has enough for every thing.
I got a good feeling they’ll be successful in this project as well.