From the Google Me Now – Not Later.. department we get this installment in stirring the Google Me pot….
“We’re trying to take Google’s core products and add a social component,” Schmidt told a select group of reporters at Zeitgeist, a gathering of business partners and high-profile industry figures.
“If you think about it, it’s obvious. With your permission, knowing more about who your friends are, we can provide more tailored recommendations. Search quality can get better.”
In a flip cam video taken by Michael Arrington at the same press launch we get to hear EXACTLY what Eric Schmidt had to say…
Google has been adding an “underlying social layer” as Eric Schmidt put it for YEARS now and we have kept you quite abreast of that since our first article on Google Reader and Google profiles in August 2008.
#1 Notice in the video NO ONE said “Google Me” – that is important.
#2 Notice Eric Schmidt never mentioned Google Buzz – very important.
#3 “If you sign up for Facebook, you can import your Google Gmail contacts…” again, very important, why can’t we import our Facebook contacts into Google Buzz and why is Facebook closed to Google?
#4 Eric Schmidt says “A social layer across all products will be created…”
Does Eric not know I have been analyzing and teaching you where and how to use this Social Layer in over 30 Google sites for 2 years now at Gwave Mastery?
In the TechCrunch post, Michael Arrington went on to say, and I am careful to point out that Arrinton is famous for saying things that MAY be a little over the top or worded to make news….
We’ve also heard more from sources who’ve worked with Google on the product. “Google Me is not a product, it’s a social layer across all products” (not so helpful). But there’s more – “Google Me will produce an activity stream generated by all Google products. Google Buzz has been rewritten to be the host of it all. And the reason Google Buzz isn’t currently working in Google Apps is because they’ll use the latest Buzz to support the activity stream in Apps…All Google products have been refactored to be part of the activity stream, including Google Docs, etc. They’ll build their social graph around the stream.”
You can quote me on this one, let me say now that “This is VERY misleading (the TechCrunch quote) and NOT what I predict will be the shape of Google Social Networking to come…”
Google’s streams are connected to Buzz right now!
TechCrunch supposedly breaks the news in their quote that Buzz has been rewritten to connect all your streams across Google. That already exists and we see Denise Wakeman connecting Amplify, Posterous, Flickr, 2 blogs and Google Reader to Google Buzz, above.
You can choose to get Denise’s streams on Buzz, or if you don’t care for the site or content, you can mute them right on her Buzz stream. This was released last week and had been in Google Buzz beta for a month prior.
Just the fact that TechCrunch says this is coming while it is has been available for the last week, tells me TechCrunch is out of touch with what Google is doing.
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Chris
Following on from the Buzz stream I’ve been following….this does not seem to add any confidence to quell my fears that Google is falling behind in the social media sphere.
Craig
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Thanks for the update, Chris. With one key, from Google, of course, you can access some 30+ Google sites, integrate any other site at any point and keep that integration accross all sites, and collaborate with anyone of your choosing. Plus you can do it all in the cloud. What more do you need?
Hey Chris,
neither Google Buzz nor Wave have really taken off. What makes you think that Google will be able to come up with something significant in terms of social web in the future (apart from blogger)?
It seems to me that focusing on facebook for social media makes much more sense at this point in time?
@Luxury Boutique Hotels – For Google Buzz to take off, all you have to do is use it.
Take a look at the amount of interaction we are getting on Buzz.
http://www.google.com/profiles/chrislang#buzz
We hit 250 comments on our best performing post so far, last week.
That is the problem with Google right now, to many are believing the Facebook propaganda that Buzz is performing poorly.
All you have to do is use Buzz to be a success. Just like Facebook and Twitter, merely filling out a Facebook profile or Twitter profile will do you no good.
Imagine if it was 2006 and I was telling you Twitter and Facebook would be the future of traffic and branding? Would your response have been the same? I would bet yes.
But we are not talking about Buzz here, mostly what I teach is how to use YouTube at http://www.gwavemastery.com
You seem to only believe Buzz is the factor, that is NOT true. Google is YouTube, Buzz, Google Reader, Google Friend Connect and Google Maps and Android phones. Can Facebook stand up to that combination?
When you look at the sum of Google instead of just the parts then you can begin to see the whole picture that Eric Schmidt is talking about here.
Does that make sense?
Hey Chris,
neither Google Buzz nor Wave have really taken off. What makes you think that Google will be able to come up with something significant in terms of social web in the future (apart from blogger)?
It seems to me that focusing on facebook for social media makes much more sense at this point in time?
@Luxury Boutique Hotels – For Google Buzz to take off, all you have to do is use it.
Take a look at the amount of interaction we are getting on Buzz.
http://www.google.com/profiles/chrislang#buzz
We hit 250 comments on our best performing post so far, last week.
That is the problem with Google right now, to many are believing the Facebook propaganda that Buzz is performing poorly.
All you have to do is use Buzz to be a success. Just like Facebook and Twitter, merely filling out a Facebook profile or Twitter profile will do you no good.
Imagine if it was 2006 and I was telling you Twitter and Facebook would be the future of traffic and branding? Would your response have been the same? I would bet yes.
But we are not talking about Buzz here, mostly what I teach is how to use YouTube at http://www.gwavemastery.com
You seem to only believe Buzz is the factor, that is NOT true. Google is YouTube, Buzz, Google Reader, Google Friend Connect and Google Maps and Android phones. Can Facebook stand up to that combination?
When you look at the sum of Google instead of just the parts then you can begin to see the whole picture that Eric Schmidt is talking about here.
Does that make sense?
Hey Chris,
thanks for the fast response, and hm… I can’t say I’m 100% convinced, but you made me consider this a real possibility. And I will start using Buzz more and digg a bit into it. My buzz feed looks exactly like that Ashton Kutcher feed you showed on gwavemaster – and you showed that there’s a much better way to use it.
For Google buzz, is there something like an equivalent as for facebook pages? E.g. if someone would have created a facebook page “Boutique Hotels” there would have been many people joining over time, but if you do it now, it’s hard to get people to like it because of the saturation.
Thanks for opening up my mind
Crum, over at iEntry, just chimed in with Google Me already being bigger than Facebook, making much the same arguments that Chris Lang does. Crum, too, thinks YouTube is important. Moreover, he thinks Google itself is the social site (but just more than a social site), and Google Profiles the central point.
Crum, over at iEntry, just chimed in with Google Me already being bigger than Facebook, making much the same arguments that Chris Lang does. Crum, too, thinks YouTube is important. Moreover, he thinks Google itself is the social site (but just more than a social site), and Google Profiles the central point.
I just thought I would check back and see what is new with the updates.