Chris Butler's Work in Progress

Google's Shared Stuff, etc.

December 7, 2007 at 2:30 pm by Chris

In September, Google released (very quietly) a service called Google Shared Stuff, which allows you to post and share links that you find interesting with friends or other Google contacts. Google has set up a help file to show you how to add the 'shared stuff' bookmarklet to your browser.

Currently, the landing page for your Shared Stuff is lacking pretty much any structure (see screenshot below, as well as my profile page), however, there are pages set up to show the top shared stuff (sorry, no link for that one since there appears to be a significant amount of pornographic content linked on that page...), as well as stuff filtered by tag or domain.

My honest reaction to this service is that it is not even close to being "there" yet. It is essentially a 'socialized' version of their bookmarks and notebook tool, but lacking in the interface details that the other services have. However, if it were combined with Google Bookmarks and Google Notebook, utilizing the full features of these services within a 'shared' environment, they could really have a serious competitor to services like Delicious and Diigo.

Tags: social-media software technology google

Comments

Mark	January 21, 2008 1:55 PM This kind of thing frustrates me. Why does Google need to do this. Hasn't del.icio.is proven their dominance in this area? I think this is the kind of thing that frustrates a lot of W2.0 novices.
Chris	January 22, 2008 8:38 AM Mark, I agree. I think Google has a lot of development going on at once, and they're relying upon early adopters to clue them in to which projects they should continue as apposed to replace with acquisitions. Kind of a 'buy or build' approach that we're familiar with. In the meantime, it leaves us with some definitely 'in progress' stuff like the 'shared stuff' tool.