Social Apps - Google Is Going To Compete With Facebook
With the recent opening of Facebook to the outside world (other than its core - the college people), the number of profiles are growing at a tremendous pace. Even though the app is designed to target the college students, Facebook is trying to put it in the face of entire world.
This has resulted in a huge advantage for Facebook. The first, and the most important one is the availability of the APIs from Facebook. This led the content creators to create cool apps on top of the Facebook platform.
Google seeing its potential, is planning to introduce something similar by opening its Orkut and eventually other apps as well. The advantage with Google is that, it has huge community from different streams.
Imagine mixing and matching the Google Earth, Orkut data along with the products from Google Base. You can have your creative minds working…