Social and Portal Connections Underway

By ArticleSnatch • July 10, 2007

Weekend mumblings of social networks came from both Yahoo and Google. In the case of Yahoo, it intends to develop Mosh. For Google, it has made progress with Socialstream. What are these new social and portal connections?

Mosh: Call this one the Social at the Portal. Techcrunch shows a Yahoo job posting about the service. Commenter “Anonymouse” says Yahoo plans for a late Fall launch. He/she also believes “it may be Yahoo’s first time doing any real Integration across products as well!”

Socialstream: Call this one the Social Portal, period. Google’s supporting a Carnegie Mellon development called the Unified Social Network (USN). This would become a “one stop” shop for social networks, if the social networks are open to it. See the features here.

Why now, in the summer dulrums?

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