It’s no longer a secret that Google is working hard on developing social features across the board. Now they’re putting a face on all the content generated by users on Google Maps by integrating their Google “Shared Stuff” profiles.
The new profiles serve as a hub for all the content you generate on the site. They let you post a photo, links, business reviews, personal maps, and say a little something about yourself to the Google Maps crowd. It’s yet another step toward honing the Google Maps platform to take on the younger crop of location-based services like Yelp and various travel sites. Profiles will certainly give the mapping product a better idea of what kinds of aspects of the service your interested in, as well as an integration point for their recent acquisition, Jaiku.
Are these features live now?
This is going to be a winner. What a sound idea!!
And within weeks, the others will follow
Google stock goes up another 50 bucks
Couldn’t they have found a better actress for that commercial? LOL Maybe they should have found some talent on our social network…
Allen
Famesource.com – Claim your fame!
http://www.fame...plash.aspx?r=13
Interesting! Great validation for what we are doing with EveryTrail. If you are interested you can find thousands of trips consisting of GPS tracks and geotagged photos from across the world (>80 countries already) by our members at http://www.everytrail.com.
Great to see Google giving more visibility to our space
Whoops, for some reason it links the _dot_ in the everytrail.com link above, causing an error. The correct link is http://www.everytrail.com
Just another step in the natural progression of Google and the web… this and more is already baked into most everybody’s expectations. Same idea with facebook, the other current object of affection. Cheers, chrisco
TechCrunch, how about blocking posts that contain URLs? 99% of the time, it’s someone spamming their stupid idea or site (or worse, FakeFamousPerson blog o’ shit).
MGZ
+1 to @8’s suggestion of blocking URL’s with comments. I think it would filter out about 50% of comments and increase signal to noise significantly!
One last TIME!
“social” is another word for Communist!
http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com
let’s spend a moment of silence in memory or of the mashup that has been doing the same for a long time: Frappr.
sometimes soon this social thingy will die…
MGZ, we like to keep the comments as open as possible and tend to err on that side of things with our moderation process. I’d like people to stop abusing links in the comments too, but sometimes there are helpful links that contribute too.
“kinds of aspects of the service >>>your
For me, Google are moving too slowly. Any other time, leveraging their existing products & services would make sense, but Social Media and Social Networking in particular requires something more than a mashup…