After Orkut, Jaiku, Wave, Buzz and Google+ Google thinks it will succeed this time with YouTube really: build a social network. And maybe they’re right.
Google has plans according to VentureBeat to the popular YouTubers their own profile where they can share photos, texts, links and polls alongside videos. The YouTube users who follow them, see it appear in their timeline. This YouTube is a kind of social network.
From Orkut to Buzz
But Google and social networks are not exactly shown the best combination. Among other Orkut (2004, sort of Facebook), Jaiku (2007, sort of Twitter), Wave (2009, sort Office 365) and Buzz (2010, sort of Twitter) are examples of social networks all have died a quiet death.
last man standing Google+, which has hundreds of millions of active users by the internet giant. These are mostly the people who log in to Gmail and therefore automatically use Google+. Google sees social networking as a service that all other Google services connects: that according to the company the power of Google +
Google+ and YouTube
Google+ is also integrated. YouTube: you can respond with a Google+ account videos. But popular YouTubers move the conversation to other platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. The new social network, which is called reportedly Backstage, Google wants YouTube viewers more keep within its platform.
Backstage would be used, inter alia by Google to share exclusive videos, so that only followers of a YouTuber see the video appear in their timeline. YouTube viewers can then respond to those videos, including messages, photos and other videos. Google will not further comment on the rumor.
End of the year
The Internet giant would make the function at the end of the year for users, who then a select group of popular YouTubers may follow. “Backstage has the potential to YouTube’s classic viewing experience in changing something active,” says VentureBeat
And that might have the right:. YouTube is more than a billion users already an extremely popular site, and some adding social features has much more chance of success than setting up a whole new social network.
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