Google Me, Facebook, Social Media and the Semantic Web

In the last few days, I’ve been hearing some interesting rumours on the social media scene.

The consensus is that Google are working on something behind the scenes that appears to be a direct competitor to Facebook. Supposedly entitled “Google Me”, it’s not entirely surprising that Google are rumoured to be doing this. Probably somewhat taken aback by the rampant growth and traffic that Facebook has been enjoying recently, it would seem that Google need something to prevent Facebook becoming too strong a competitor. They need to compete with Facebook on a level playing field. There’s no doubt about it that whilst Google are the King of Search, Facebook is the King of social media and social media is taking the web world by storm.

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