Techcrunch
Michael Arrington
November 14 2007
Saul Hansell at the The New York Times is reporting that both Yahoo and Google are planning to use their email services as the core of their social networking strategy over time.
Of course, by social network, they mean Facebook and MySpace. Not the already vibrant social networking that already goes on daily via my email inbox…no, we’re talking about widgets. and profile pages. and adding friends and linking to their profile pages.
Google’s strategy appears to be a little more well thought out. Joe Kraus, who runs OpenSocial, seems to be saying that he wants to open up the connections people already have in Gmail, and allow Open Social applications to leverage that data.