[IxDA Discuss] Google Social

[Loren Baxter]

Challis - News surrounding that is vague. 
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/07/googles-social-networking-projects.html
seems to be everyone's source, and they don't really make the
distinction.  If you're highly interested, perhaps do some digging
and call the Carnegie Mellon group; I bet you'd wind up with more
information than anyone else on the web about it.  Get the scoop as
it were.

Jeff - those are tough questions, and very important.  I can't
presume to answer them, but my own feelings, hunches even, are that
the "place" aspect of the networks is very important.  Logging into
mySpace and into Facebook are very different things for me.  Each one
feels like its own "place", has its own community and level of
trust and comfort.

A good example would be my profiles on each site.  They are very
different, based on the type of people that may be looking at them
(Friends on Facebook, basically anyone on Myspace).  How do you
reconcile these two identities in one aggregator?  How does my level
of "trust" change in the new social space that has been created?


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