Google in 2008
This is for all Google watchers - both Googlophiles and Googlophobes. Google Blogscoped posted Google in 2008. The post is a wrap-up of Google Inc’s announcement regarding rumors, products and possible trends in 2008. Topics included:
One of the things of interest in terms of RSS was this paragraph from the Maka Maka section of the post that read:
Among coming changes to Google’s RSS Reader service, the video was foreshadowing a service called “Maka Maka.” This was supposed to be the new social back-end across different Google services, part of it being the roll-out of so-called “activity streams” in Google Reader. Already, a Google Profile service was released recently, and Reader introduced a feature showing your Google Talk friends’ shared items. It may be possible that this is just the beginning of the social Google back-end we’ll be seeing more of in 2008.[Source]
The Social Google RSS Reader: A more social Google Reader. This should be interesting in terms of what it is and what the reactions to it is,
Then in terms of Information Overlload there is the Knol, Google’s take on the wiki: Google’s Wkipedia (?):
2008 may not become the service’s success year, but – if the doors to this weirdly-named service are opened to the general public – it may become the defining year in terms of providing seed content for the site. A stable basis of articles may grow more good articles, whereas a site that seems to be abused by spammers from all sides may lead to more spam (“broken window phenomenon” style). You may argue the basis for user-generated content is karma, not money (I help Wikipedia because they don’t suck/ rip me off), and while Google has money, their karma is sometimes flaky.[Source]
In terms of RSS and Information Overload it should be an interesting 2008 Google-wise.
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