Comments on: Google finally makes its move?

By: b_f

b_f — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:55:28 +0000

Well we know it has something to do with advertising. At least my head is less boggled about the adscape purchase. http://www.google.com/press/annc/annc_adscape.html

By: Tess

Tess — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:21:24 +0000

I knew Google was up to something in the virtual world space, but I couldn’t figure out what, for the longest time. Having excellent contacts in the company doesn’t help much.

By: Michael Chui

Michael Chui — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:03:48 +0000

Google needs Facebook because of the social network already in place (the one true thing google lacks for almost every aspect of its business).

orkut is one of the top social networks outside the US. Brazil and India, for instance.

By: Morgan Ramsay

Morgan Ramsay — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:51:09 +0000

Why would you want to have the real world as a virtual world, though?

Why would you want a model of anything? (Where’s that rolling eyes icon!?)

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:28:18 +0000

Why would you want to have the real world as a virtual world, though?

By: Slyfeind

Slyfeind — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:13:06 +0000

I can’t understand how they can compete with Facebook, Second Life, or anybody else in that arena. I have accounts on MySpace, Facebook, Second Life, and have Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail. I use them all frequently, and I’m sure I’ll have a GoogleSpace character on top of all that.

Google’s got my patronage, but I don’t plan on leaving my other virtual spaces.

By: Richard Carey Associates > Digital Media Solutions, Serious Games & Learning Simulations

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:41:44 +0000

[...] writing the previous post about the convergence of MMOGs and social media in browser-based games). Raph Koster and Lee Wilson also picked up on the [...]

By: Andrew Wooldridge

Andrew Wooldridge — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:47:58 +0000

OK Raph – dont you dare let Microsoft buy Areae!

By: cyanbane

cyanbane — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:44:20 +0000

Looks like my "Acquire" in my above comment, might actually mean "Acquire Part Of*".

By: cyanbane

cyanbane — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:24:14 +0000

Google needs Facebook because of the social network already in place (the one true thing google lacks for almost every aspect of its business). In my opinion, if they don’t acquire (and I don’t think they will) then it will be a slow build. If they were to create a “2nd-life-ish” (term used loosely) Google Earth Mesh then it would be built organically at first and I think that there would definitely be some static from people if they just went willy nilly with the data they have now (ie “Let me get this strait, you just imported my gmail contacts to create a social graph and put me in this virtual world just because I have a Gmail account?”).

MS missed an opportunity to develop social connections with Vista. So I could see them trying to pick up Facebook, but neither them nor Google really have a strong internal bulk social connection set as of now (Orkut doesn’t count