{"id":1811,"date":"2007-10-17T16:52:24","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T20:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/17\/another-piece-of-the-google-social-net\/"},"modified":"2007-10-17T16:52:24","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T20:52:24","slug":"another-piece-of-the-google-social-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/17\/another-piece-of-the-google-social-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Another piece of the Google social net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not a huge deal, really &#8212; as Greg Sterling notes <a href=\"http:\/\/gesterling.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/17\/google-maps-adds-profiles\/\">over at Screenwerk<\/a> &#8212; but the news that Google has added social features to Google Maps is just another piece of the puzzle that is (or at least could be) the Web company&#8217;s emerging <a href=\"http:\/\/googlesystem.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/google-maps-becomes-social.html\">social net<\/a>. The features aren&#8217;t rocket science, of course: user profiles that link to maps a person has created, reviews they&#8217;ve written of local businesses, etc. But it ties some things together in ways they weren&#8217;t before.<\/p>\n<p>As many people have noted &#8212; including me in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/09\/11\/google-dont-cross-the-activity-streams\/\">this post<\/a> &#8212; Google has been working on what appears to be a unified social-networking approach that would bring together many of its existing services such as GTalk, Orkut, Maps, Picasa, etc. and let people create what amount to &#8220;activity streams&#8221; that others could subscribe to, hints of which first appeared <a href=\"http:\/\/blogoscoped.com\/forum\/108194.html\">in a post<\/a> at Google Blogoscoped.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not a huge deal, really &#8212; as Greg Sterling notes over at Screenwerk &#8212; but the news that Google has added social features to Google Maps is just another piece of the puzzle that is (or at least could be) the Web company&#8217;s emerging social net. The features aren&#8217;t rocket science, of course: user &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/17\/another-piece-of-the-google-social-net\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another piece of the Google social net&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}