Facebook has nabbed a new domain – Facebook.me – prompting rumours that it could be planning a brand new product rather than just the simple redirect that currently sends visitors to its main site. Could Facebook.me bring more customisable profiles to the social network or even be its long-rumoured answer to Gmail?
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Facebook has revealed a new feature called Facebook Questions. It’s currently in beta and allows users to pose queries and get them answered by other Facebook users who are in the know. It’ll be handy feature for Facebook fans when it launches for everyone but it’s also a clever more by Facebook to get its fingers further into social search and compete with Google (which recently snapped up its own questions service) and other providers of online answers. Read on for answers to your questions about Facebook questions…
A Google Voice UK service is definitely on the way. Google head honcho, Eric Schmidt, has confirmed that the web phone service is headed to Britain and the mysterious Facebook-fighting social network Google Me got a mention too. Read on for a brief glimpse of the Google-tinged future to come…
Right now, Google Me is effectively a mythical service. Just 14 words in a tweet from Digg founder, Kevin Rose, kicked off thousands speculating about a Facebook-fighting social network from the search giant. Meanwhile Facebook has hit 500m users and Mark Zuckerberg is confidently predicting that number will reach 1 billion. So why would Google even bother to try and battle Facebook and why would anyone predict that it could win?
Google and Facebook have been sparring in the traffic stakes for months, but now the search giant looks like unleashing it’s own social network to take on Zuckerberg and co. Again. After Buzz and Wave, Google Me is the Big G’s latest rumoured attempt to tempt our pokes and tags to their side of the web.