GMail - New Social Network
What is the true size of your social graph? If you ask Google for this, the answer is in your contact database.
Alex Chitu, in his blog, Google Operating System , says that he found a code indicating Google’s intention to automatically send status updates from your chat and contact database to GMail. One of the next steps towards the creation of a de facto social network.
The details of what, where and in what form it will appear are still quite approximate, but as Chitu said: “Probably all at GMail will be given information about the latest major events in your contacts from various Google services.” Similar functionality, he noted, is already available in Picasa, Orkut and Google Reader.
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As Matthew Ingram says , “Google brings together all the threads of its social network.” What is going to happen and what I previously learned from an insider is happening (although he told me that this would be part of the Maka-Maka / OpenSocial project). And all this, in fact, as once, that is what I expected from Google.
At the same time, I do not share the fears of some that this will eventually turn into another annoying collection of spam. But at the same time, I understand that the road to social Google will be filled with difficulties and mistakes.
E-mail at the moment is already a very well-developed tool, although we are still waiting for an improvement in the situation with phishing and spam ( from the author: faced with great difficulties in translating this sentence. I will be glad to any improvements ). By adding new features to the system, they also add the ability to turn GMail's spam-free service into something like MySpace overloaded with spam (do you want to easily advertise real estate on thousands of user screens? Always upload pictures to Picasa for endless status updates).
I am sure that the long delay from the moment when I first heard about this initiative until the moment when information appeared about the possible launch of the service suggests that the creators are really aware of potential problems. But my prediction is that - if they are not careful enough, we will see at least two or three mini- fiascoes , the privacy level in Google Reader , and one big similar to spam on Facebook .
Alex Chitu, in his blog, Google Operating System , says that he found a code indicating Google’s intention to automatically send status updates from your chat and contact database to GMail. One of the next steps towards the creation of a de facto social network.
The details of what, where and in what form it will appear are still quite approximate, but as Chitu said: “Probably all at GMail will be given information about the latest major events in your contacts from various Google services.” Similar functionality, he noted, is already available in Picasa, Orkut and Google Reader.
')
As Matthew Ingram says , “Google brings together all the threads of its social network.” What is going to happen and what I previously learned from an insider is happening (although he told me that this would be part of the Maka-Maka / OpenSocial project). And all this, in fact, as once, that is what I expected from Google.
At the same time, I do not share the fears of some that this will eventually turn into another annoying collection of spam. But at the same time, I understand that the road to social Google will be filled with difficulties and mistakes.
E-mail at the moment is already a very well-developed tool, although we are still waiting for an improvement in the situation with phishing and spam ( from the author: faced with great difficulties in translating this sentence. I will be glad to any improvements ). By adding new features to the system, they also add the ability to turn GMail's spam-free service into something like MySpace overloaded with spam (do you want to easily advertise real estate on thousands of user screens? Always upload pictures to Picasa for endless status updates).
I am sure that the long delay from the moment when I first heard about this initiative until the moment when information appeared about the possible launch of the service suggests that the creators are really aware of potential problems. But my prediction is that - if they are not careful enough, we will see at least two or three mini- fiascoes , the privacy level in Google Reader , and one big similar to spam on Facebook .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/31350/
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