Google to create a platform that aggregates Social Network websites data
Now here is a creative way of kicking the crap out of your competition.
So Google’s Brad Fitzpatrick published some notes about how Google is going to develop a system that will aggregate the data from all of the most prominent Social Network sites. Note that we are not talking about an end-user product, meaning that the purpose of this system is to provide a tool that will generate graph data from all of the network sites without having to login seperatly to each account. Sounds a bit confusing right?
That’s the idea! Of course that there is a hidden agenda here, and doesn’t take a rocket scientist to uncover it.
Imagine not having to re-invite your friends every time you register on a new Social Networking platform since this centralized system will aggregate all of this data for you! and what about only needing to login to your Google account to have all of this data at your mercy? Ah the joy of Google contr…I mean simplicty.
Supposedly, Google is negotiating with Facebook and they have shown a lot of enthusiasm.
The goal is not to replace Facebook. In fact, most people I’ve talked to love Facebook, just want a bit more of their already-public data to be more easily accessible, and want to mitigate site owners’ fears about any single data/platform lock-in. Early talks with Facebook about participating in this project have been incredibly promising.
If you have a centralized system that aggregates all of the data in one platform, the natural progression will be that the traffic will divert from the independent data feeders to the centralized system.
For the life of me I cannot understand how any of the Social Networks can find this exciting or promising in any way, unless of course there is plenty going on that we don’t know about.