Google plans on selling endorsements

According to last week's announcement, besides the fact that Facebook is already doing it, Google will soon take the same route of selling users endorsements. In other words, people's private posts and other important stuff about themselves, or something they might have liked, will eventually become public, and it does not mean just airing their good or bad experiences at some hotel.

The timing is not particularly the most appropriate since these days there is a lot of talk on both sides of the Atlantic about information privacy concerns which are raising eyebrows at all levels, including high ranking government officials from some European countries.  

Although these are supposed to be "minor changes" to the company policy to take effect on

Facebook and Amazon plan to sell smartphones

While Android has proven to be tremendously successful for Google, Facebook is intending to compete for the enormous advertising market, as well as for similar opportunities which the search giant is enjoying at this moment.


The critical thing for the user to consider has to do with the well known issues and challenges in terms of security that the everyone would potentially face knowing that the much talked about 

Facebook going into the Music business

Facebook is said to be teaming up with Spotify, Pandora and others in order to get into the Music industry.

The strategy would be for users to engage into streaming music and sharing it with their friends, as well as finding out what they are listening to, so they can all recommend their musical tastes among themselves. In other words, the same idea as

Google + not a new Wave but more

The people at Google are clearly going after Facebook, but this time, in a way they have not tried before, and that is by introducing a social networking service loaded with new  features, options and a technologically different approach altogether.

We remember that they already attempted to do it before by launching  brand names such as Wave and Buzz but, inevitably, had to put them both aside, and needed to come up with something else with no time to waste, not precisely because they cannot afford being out of the competition, but because it is a matter of