Google’s OpenSocial having growing pains
Joshua Allen lays out a great recap of Open Social’s first two months of life, and the tea leaves are not reading in Google’s favor:
Social networking is Facebook’s core business, while it’s a side project for Google. Although Google has just attempted to add social networking to Google Reader (via Scoble), and is trying to take on Wikipedia with Knol, it remains to be seen whether they can be a great social networking platform. Even Umair Haq, the perennial Google fan-boy, admits that Google might not have the right DNA.
2. January 2008 at 12:42
i find it interesting that the sub-paragraph you choose to quote here has the least to do with open social. i will agree that open social is a failure. but that doesn’t seem to be what you are focusing on. if you want to argue that google does not have any success with social network, i have two words for you: You Tube.