Possibly, it all started in the year 1999 when someone conceptualized “rating ones face” and launched Rate my face. Soon after, the idea inspired many … entrepreneurs took the idea, came-up with innovative additional features and continued inspiring its successors.
“Rate My Face” (1999) [inspired] “Hot Or Not” (2001) [inspired] “Facemash” (2003) [evolved as] “TheFacebook” (2004) [evolved as] “Facebook” (2005) [inspired] “Google+” (2011).
Since 2004, millions enjoyed the “wall”, “poked” on every decent opportunity;). Announced “what’s on mind” and “liked” what’s on other’s mind maybe because One of the key attributes of the mind is that it is a private sphere to which no one but the owner has access. No one else can "know our mind” – after all, unknown has always attracted human race! – And we “like” it.
Now, having mentioned “like”, the whole idea behind facebook “like” wasn’t so rich initially – until it became (one of the top) marketing and promotional tool (eventually) and yes this small ‘awesome’ (now like) button has went through a long journey of 2 years!
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‘Nuff said, we all have been there, done that - when it’s about Facebook. Now we have something new to fall in love with, if we “like” (grrr +1) it at the end though – The Google+. While am navigating through to get a first hand feel of this “under trial” product’s offerings – first look was soothing, simple and neat UI - impressive - just like any-other Google offering. At present glitches are there but too early to scream as it's under trial phase and yet to be ironed out!
But meanwhile, undoubtedly, battle to capture the web commerce market has started with a bang!
"Like" vs "Google +1" - The battle
Google +1 is catching up, slowly - but a long way to go.
Loren Baker at BlueGlass said "With total respect for Google, +1 is no Facebook "like" until it is taken outside of the parameters of Google and onto blogs, news sites and websites; and into the LIVES of web users, which Facebook has been first to market."
With total respect to Loren Baker - point to think is, doesn't Google have enough reach in our lives anyways - traditionally? (barring this "social network" tag)? No online presence is for "free" unless we agree to pay by means of "personal information". As an example - Google already knows about - our emails (Gmail), our appointments (Google Calendar), our location (Google Latitude), our watching behavior (Youtube [includes broadcasting] - Google TV), whom we are talking to (Google Voice), our photos (Picasa Web Albums - which now includes face-recognition technology that can automatically identify me and you in new photos), our blogging platform (Blogger), they have a mobile platform (Android [bought Android Inc., in 2005]), an integrated hardware (OS) platform Crome Book, allows us to trace (and also be tracked) (Google Maps), knows what we listen to (Google Cloud presence - Google Music) and so much so our reading behavior (Google Books)...as we use most of the offerings - will it be too hard for Google+ to be an ideal platform for social networking? Lets see ... (but if you want; you may leave your views too...)
Btw, you may "Like" this post or "+1" it - I'll feel "awesome" anyways ;)
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