Comments on: Google Shares: Its “Meh”, But That’s Ok. Here’s Why. http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/09/20/google-shares-its-meh-but-thats-ok-heres-why/ Thoughts on Web 2.0, Social Media, Marketing. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 06:10:44 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Mark Evans http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/09/20/google-shares-its-meh-but-thats-ok-heres-why/comment-page-1/#comment-76929 Mark Evans Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:21:33 +0000 http://www.deepjiveinterests.com/2007/09/20/google-shares-its-meh-but-thats-ok-heres-why/#comment-76929 Having played around with Share, it's not that it's a me-too product but it's been released without features that are significantly better than the status quo. If I was Yahoo/del.ico.us, I'd be sleeping easy tonight. So why does Google bother? Probably because they've got a huge R&D team that needs to be kept busy. And if a me-too service (e.g. GMail) happens to take off, so much the better. Having played around with Share, it’s not that it’s a me-too product but it’s been released without features that are significantly better than the status quo. If I was Yahoo/del.ico.us, I’d be sleeping easy tonight.

So why does Google bother? Probably because they’ve got a huge R&D team that needs to be kept busy. And if a me-too service (e.g. GMail) happens to take off, so much the better.

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