Digg founder Kevin Rose is a guy who knows about building a website from the ground up. He’s on a lot of boards, he’s got a lot of friends, and most importantly, he hears a lot of rumors. Take, for instance, the news that he posted on Twitter late Saturday night: Facebook might soon be getting competition from Google in the form of Google Me.
Now Google has a lot of products that do the same thing Facebook does: Google Latitude, Google Buzz, Google Wave, Google Profiles, and even a Facebook competition site currently up and running called Orkut. None of these, aside from Latitude, have made a dent in the market. Some (ahem, Google Buzz) have been outright disasters. However, if you take all these pieces, mash them together, add them to your Google Profile, toss in Google Talk, YouTube, and GMail and… do you have something?
I don’t know. I don’t think anyone’s going to leave Facebook for a new social networking website any time soon. Whatever happens will happen slowly, and will take years to really make a dent in Facebook’s market share. I mean, people still use Internet Explorer, MySpace, and even AOL, don’t they? Google can’t kill Facebook, but they can at least finally get serious about entering the social networking arena.
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