Google’s Long History of Social Media Attempts

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Google’s Long History of Social Media Attempts

10 July 2010 823 views 4 Comments

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Google’s long history of acquisition, innovation, experimentation, successes and failures is dotted with household names (YouTube) and forgotten brands (Jaiku anyone?).

The following Infographic from Mashable puts Google’s Social Media history into the contect of a timeline. I for one, refuse to get excited by the prospect of Google launching it’s Facebook competitor Google Me particularly as I’ve often thrown the full weight of my enthusiasm behind the likes of Orkut, GoogleWave, SideWiki and Aardvark only to be bitterly disappointed.

Anyhooooo….

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raxlakhani said:

Google’s Long History of Social Media Attempts http://bit.ly/cxNThi

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# 10 July 2010 at 12:42 pm

blogtillyoudrop said:

RT @raxlakhani Google’s Long History of Social Media Attempts http://bit.ly/bhHYqk

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# 13 July 2010 at 8:30 am

MarkDilley said:

This great – although it does miss a big social media acquisition by Google. The JotSpot wiki was turned into Google Sites. Here is my rant about that:

http://blog.aboutus.org/2008/03/04/google-to-earth-site-is-the-word-du-jour/

Here is my rant about SearchWiki:

http://blog.aboutus.org/2009/09/23/google-is-confused-again/

Cheers, Mark

# 24 July 2010 at 12:30 am