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What Google is Saying About Social Web

September 16, 2008

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Last week it was great to see Google at Bear Hug Camp. Like a good citizen they were collaborating on how to integrate Twitter with Google Chat etc.

The promise of the social web is about making it easy to share the small stuff — to make it effortless and rebuild that feeling of connectedness that comes from knowing the details….It will be great when the instant I think of something to tell my friends, or something I need from my friends, they’re available to me in some way.   Remember when Google embedded IM into Gmail, and you could suddenly see — without changing applications — that the friend you were about to email was online and easily reachable right at that second? …Now, many sites and services are adding even more sophisticated plumbing (like profiles and friends and presence and comments) that brings the immediacy of social interaction to more and more places on the web….We — meaning Google and many others in the web community — are in the midst of a burst of energy around all things social that is teaching us more every day about what people want to do with their friends and where. …What are the big plumbing problems — like contact portability, or standards for user authentication and authorization — that need to be solved for the whole web because no one site can do it on its own?Google is chipping in on all of these fronts, listening closely to our users to make our existing products more social in useful ways, and by working with the web community on software projects like OpenSocial and OAuth to address some of the big infrastructure challenges that are best solved in the open, with the perspective of many developers and website owners represented.   Fast forward ten years, and you’ll feel even more at home on the web than you do today - because it will be a pretty good reflection of you. Via The social web : About the small stuff

Twitter attended then left. Not sure if they ever came back or not.Laconica is an open source micro blogging application that apparently Leo Laporte is using with his TWiT Army. Identi.ca was also built upon Laconica.Do you twitter? If so, what do you think of it?

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