There’s a big hush about it all but Google is staying silent. They’ve tried in the past to do it but it just hasn’t worked. Yes, we are talking about “Google Me” service which at this point seems to be a biggest threat to facebook if launched soon.
This time Google really wanted to move slowly and steadly in social space after some serious mistakes it has made with Google Buzz. Paul Adams who works on Use interface at Google has also released some slides about Social Networks, which can give a hit about which direction Google is moving in getting ready for the Social Network.
Still very little is known about what all it will be based on. Its highly likely that Google could potentially rebrand Orkut as Google Me with a totally revamped User Interface and put the cherry on the cake by adding killer features from its most popular products: Google Latitude, Mail, Google Voice, Talk, Buzz, Wave, Docs, Picasa, or Youtube & not to forget integrate its own Calendar services for making appointments with friends etc. If the ball does start rolling Facebook will have to come up with more innovative and creative ideas to compete with the Giant.
Google also has a Adsense and existing successfull advertisement system which can very well fit into this whole infrastructure and give sleepless nights to facebook investors.
