Google has unveiled a new feature Web 2.0, which will be available “within weeks” to all Gmail users, in their mailbox.
Through this advance feature the users should be able to share not only a status (a mini-information that informs their humor, their activity), but also photos, or videos. That is the same way as we do on our Facebook account .
One cannot considered, it as a revolution, as explained in the Wall Street Journal has revealed that from February 8, users of Yahoo! can also share their work with their contacts. This feature, called Yahoo Profile, notably allows monitoring account activity Facebook, MySpace, LastFM, Linkend In, Delicious Vimeo or friends who have given permission.
However this launch reflects mainly the new imperatives of Google: if the algorithm itself has become, in less than twelve years, the first search engine of the world (but beware of Baidu, a Chinese competitor!), Google has been completely overtaken by the success of social networks like Facebook and Twitter to users.
According to the Nielsen Company, they will pass no less than 5 h 35 per month, against 3 h every 03 months a year ago. “In today’s world, where information overwhelmed the user, messages, twits, the organization of such data is becoming more complex,” explains the California site, which, initially, will share the content available on Picasa, Google Reader, YouTube, Flickr, Blogger and Twitter.
Called Buzz, this new service will use “existing contacts in a user’s Gmail” and suggest “friends based on the history of e-mails and instant conversations (chats), which may be screaming defenders privacy, especially since Rush will also “another important guideline of partition: the location. Google promises for its part, it will be easy to separate exchanges among public and private groups.