2 posts tagged “social media”
Our view at Google is that's a transitory phase in the development of the whole social web, and that those friend relationships that you create on these sites should be usable and portable and allow you to get benefit no matter where you go on the web. - Joe Kraus
Can the Internet be made more social? This is a question with which Joe Kraus, director of product management at Google, constantly has to grapple. He believes every killer app on the web -- instant messaging, e-mail, blogging, photo-sharing -- has succeeded because it helps people connect with one another. For Kraus, this means the Internet has an inherently social character, but it can be enhanced further -- an area he continues to explore through Google initiatives such as Open Social and Friend Connect. Wharton legal studies professor Kevin Werbach spoke with Kraus recently about the increasing socialization of the Internet.
Zyb features include:
- Users can connect to the people in their mobile phone's address book to keep in touch and share mobile content
- Connected friends can keep their contact information updated in each other's phones
- Users can micro-blog from their phone and broadcast the blog to people in their phone's address book
- Users can upload pictures from their mobile phone and tag the pictures using the phone's address book
- Users can expand their social network by searching for people with whom they have mutual friends
