Surely by now everyone is in the loop about the city riots that occurred during the last week, and fingers have been pointing the blame at social media and its role in “fuelling” such devastatingly destructive disturbances. As a result, those concerned have pleaded for social networking outlets, including Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry’s instant-messaging software “BBM”, to be limited or shut down.
Back in the days when the dial-up warble to connect to the internet was a painful but necessary part of a working day – if you’d suggested a communication tool capable of facial recognition and political revolutions, you’d probably have got a funny look and a warning not to take Minority Report too seriously. But come 2011 social media has changed not only the way we communicate socially and professionally, receive our news and carry out our work, but also organise just about every part of our lives in just all its real-time, no detail spared glory.
So it seems Google have launched a new site, albeit very quietly. The new service is called “What do you love?” and the long-term plan looks to give a unified UI to search across many of Google’s services – or, to put it in English – provide a single page of relevant results from multiple channels (such as YouTube, Maps and Translate etc).
