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New Google Service Turns Web Pages into Networking Sites

washingtonpost.com — To socialize these days, hundreds of millions of people every month turn to social networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook.

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  • Keffmaster, on 05/12/2008, -11/+4Very nice
    • atcrawford, on 05/12/2008, -5/+7But I already have spyware that keeps up with the websites I track
      • zongamin, on 05/13/2008, -2/+2That's because you use windows! arf!
    • therpandrus, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1ha!
  • JustGrant, on 05/12/2008, -10/+5*Watching*
  • nmaster64, on 05/12/2008, -9/+38Iz dat sum Web 3.0?
  • mackoid101, on 05/12/2008, -6/+6Oh god, another social-networking scheme. But at least it's bound to be ok...
  • Brownout, on 05/12/2008, -10/+3Now anybody can troll on any site using this service, funny.
  • tamacurtis, on 05/12/2008, -6/+9Sounds like a great way to gain marketing research. How long before Big Corporate starts utilizing the data?
    • TheG2, on 05/12/2008, -3/+9Oh no, ads for things I might actually be interested in? What has the world come to.
      • Oronar, on 05/12/2008, -0/+9Ads? Who looks at ads anymore?
        • TheG2, on 05/12/2008, -0/+5True, I use ABP but if I'm going to be advertised at, I at least want it to be relevant to me.
  • tobywuk, on 05/12/2008, -15/+2Another idea that could monopolise google
    • arunforce, on 05/12/2008, -0/+16I'll pretend that you meant Google could monopolize the web.
  • kida101, on 05/12/2008, -11/+3Watch out for Big Brother.
  • ftrc, on 05/12/2008, -3/+32i would like to see it working
  • thegenome, on 05/12/2008, -17/+5facebook has already won on this front
  • Thorpe, on 05/12/2008, -2/+27The announcement from Google:
    http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/20080512_ ...

    The website to look out for when it's up:
    http://www.google.com/friendconnect
    • HawkeyeMatt, on 05/12/2008, -2/+1"This is the best guac EVAR"

      Save that picture for the future, to remind yourself that Friend Connect was never good.
    • jsd8cc, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4"The fact that so many people were using Facebook made Google nervous," said Danny Sullivan, editor in chief of Searchengineland.com, an industry site. "They watched this site have explosive growth, and they don't have a competitive product."

      Uh...ever heard of Orkut?
      • Tanath, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1"Competitive product" not "competing product."
  • SexyPopMachine, on 05/12/2008, -4/+4Seems pretty cool, just wonder how many people will use it.
  • peznex, on 05/12/2008, -2/+19KREBS
  • Farmer77, on 05/12/2008, -2/+67Good, now can Google do the world a favor and create an auctioning site to knock Ebay off their pedestal?
  • UltramegaOK, on 05/12/2008, -2/+3That Krebs is a sexy beast.
  • nickert0n, on 05/12/2008, -14/+2nickert0n is addicted to digg please help he doesnt even take the time to properly whipe the ***** off his ass without runniung back to it.

    • atcrawford, on 05/12/2008, -1/+7One of these days you will learn to lock your pc when you are away from your desk.
  • dext3r, on 05/12/2008, -3/+1The Krebs Cycle!
  • Trojan, on 05/12/2008, -3/+1goodbye Ning
  • kweee, on 05/12/2008, -1/+6I think Digg should add this feature.
    • smartkuz, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1I hope enough people appreciate the humor in your comment...
  • Angus5, on 05/12/2008, -4/+13Finally! I'm ***** sick of MySpace. Hopefully this will slow it down.
    • skyshock1, on 05/12/2008, -0/+3I don't think this is meant to supplant MySpace, but rather expand it. Think YouTube comments EVERYWHERE on any site. Interesting concept, but I think what this will do is just keep perpetuating the fact that the Internet is full of retards.
    • zspeed78, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3I think myspace is already slowing down.. most college kids stick to facebook, and after graduation they slow down on facebook as well. In reality most people do realize logging in everyday is a waste time. The concept of staying in touch online is fine.. but daily updates is just a time kill.
    • bxblox, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1Why does it really matter? If you don't like myspace, why not just avoid the site?
  • sublime, on 05/12/2008, -1/+3I cant remember the name of the software, but this same thing was done close to 8 years ago. You install some client software and you can chat and socialize with others who were visiting the same website as you.
    • Aharoni, on 05/12/2008, -1/+3You're probably referring to Odigo, an Israeli start-up that was bought by Comverse (another Israeli hi-tech company). Five years after the purchase, on March 2007, it was shut down for good.
  • Accolade1, on 05/12/2008, -3/+3If this "Web 3.0" results in a way to use only one account without entering much personal identity information, across all websites, then this could be the next step. Until that step is made, I don't see many individuals linking Facebook or MySpace accounts to other web sites for people to read their full names.
    • dlite922, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1Are you listening to yourself?

      Personal Identity.....across all websites.

      That's like saying I don't have to worry about giving out my credit card number because everybody already has it.
  • bicyclethief, on 05/12/2008, -2/+6KREBS is a killing word.
  • laterthandawn, on 05/12/2008, -4/+4Holy referral id in that URL, Batman.
  • monkeyrun, on 05/12/2008, -4/+5The end of dedicated "social-networking" sites as we know it? I hope so.
  • daizaru, on 05/12/2008, -2/+3Did anyone find it peculiar that the first site to employ this is an artists myspace page?
  • Aharoni, on 05/12/2008, -1/+2I always wondered why they wouldn't let other sites implement the Gtalk application they have on Gmail and add a few additional features such as "who is watching this page"... I honestly suspected that was the route Pounce would take to differentiate itself from the competition. Well, looks like the concept is finally coming to realization.
  • eminiguy, on 05/12/2008, -5/+4Yeah, nice, but stuff like that has been around for many years. It's called forums and you can easily install one on your site using totally free resources. Social networking is so overrated. Please, big G, how about you come up with something genuinely new?
    • nicosFR, on 05/12/2008, -1/+3useless comment... forum users and social network and chat users aren't the same.
      How frustrating is it not to remember some forum or site password now and then. Imagine your mum or dad having to remember that many passwords without sticky notes on their screen.
      • MtheoryX, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1If they're anything like mine, they would have a single sticky note, with one password used for everything. Shame.
  • cmdrNacho, on 05/12/2008, -2/+6if opening a site in a iframe is impressive.. i have some cool things i can show you
  • thedogfatherx, on 05/12/2008, -2/+3Google does it again. This should be pretty cool.
  • JYoungest1, on 05/12/2008, -0/+12Porn just got alot more social
  • rip747, on 05/12/2008, -1/+2this has been 100 times in the past. Some points: ever heard of Flock? Yeah it does it. Also if you're not the one to use a browser, you can sign up with Weblin (www.weblin.com).
  • Condemned, on 05/12/2008, -1/+2I don't think many people will be using this...
  • jeffsawyer, on 05/12/2008, -2/+1A few days ago, I was just chatting with my girlfriend about how this is the way things need to go. Google is big enough at this point to actually make this work. I just hope Google does it without ads and just uses this as another tool to keep people searching with Google and seeing ads that way.
  • shaund344, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1this is gonna be big...
  • wiretapped, on 05/12/2008, -2/+3Like Gmail, its a great spy product.
  • dralezero, on 05/12/2008, -2/+1Pretty much destroys the idea I had for a site. Maybe there will be some sort of API?
  • PatrickX, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5This really isn't all that cool. It doesn't let you integrate your friends and information from different sites. It just lets you open an iframe with info from a different site, which is walled off from the rest of the page...
  • jackdaniels06, on 05/13/2008, -3/+3WHY THIS IS AWESOME! This allows anybody with a web site, that's right YOU who has a website, anybody with a website the potential to become the next Mark Zuckerberg but unlike Facebook will not be an exclusive self-interested 'walled garden' and it will be accesible to everyone who supports OpenID. This makes an open internet even more open, democratic and social evermore than before and all the user of the internet the big winners.
    • HanuMatrix, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2How did you work out that this enables anyone to become the next Mark Suckerberg? With you on the open... but you work for Google, right?
  • gcnaddict, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1This seems like MEDIUM... which I didn't like much.
  • Metasquares, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4I remember running across a Firefox plugin that was supposed to do this at one point. I don't think it ever took off, but then, this is Google we're talking about this time around.
  • MadOgre, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2I like it. I signed up to try it... if Google lets me. What's up with that?
  • Cooperfan, on 05/13/2008, -1/+1Damn it, I had this idea, but it would have been a FireFox extension then.
  • Cooperfan, on 05/13/2008, -2/+1Damn it, I had this idea, but it would have been a FireFox extension then.
  • gbhall, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1Is this good or bad for developers who make social networking sites?
    Good that they can create something unique, therefore their demand increases.
    Bad that nobody will use their system as people cant be bothered to stop using a system that works across all sites...
  • Max999, on 05/13/2008, -1/+0The signup on http://www.google.com/friendconnect/previewsignup won't work! Did it work for anyone?
  • tripston, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1All your sites are belong to Google
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