#“Dodgeball, Orkut, Jaiku, Latitude. Spot the pattern?”
Yes just 4 of Google's attempts to do "Social" online. All complete flops. Or growing until Google bought them and killed them.
It's pretty hard for an organisation that's built on secrecy to build something social.
When has a representative of Google Ireland ever attended any local event here in an official capacity? Or sponsored one? Figure the basics out before you start trying to apply technology to a human activity.
So let's see what they announce today.