Daniel Lewis

I had heard that something was stirring at Google in regards to a Social Web app, they already have Orkut (which has changed a bit since I last viewed it) and in the past few months they have acquired a few socially-orientated web companies/systems such as FeedBurner, Zingku and Jaiku.

So whats going on? Recent leaks from Google have pointed to something called:

Google Maka-Maka

Blog posts about it available: On Blogoscope and On Techcrunch

Now this might be a bit of a fake thing going in, spread by Google to throw people off the scent to what they are actually doing… or it could just be Google wanting a share in the popularity seen by Facebook. To me, I have a feeling that if everything already said by the above links is true, then this isn’t going to be revolutionary at all - I don’t even think it will be evolutionary. Sorry Google if it is all true, but you’re going to have to do something special.

plug: If anyone is looking for an easy to use Social Web tool then have a look at Elgg, which recently came joint second with Drupal in the Packt Publishing Best Open Source Social Networking Tool Award. Elgg is going to have a very interesting future, watch out for it!

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