image thumb140 Google Continues With Its Social Strategy For Google Me: Shops Angstro

Google continues to bolster its social networking initiative, Google.Me. The latest step is the acquisition of Angstro, a startup launched back in 2008 with a purpose to provide aggregated business news to professionals. The startup leveraged the existing social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to help people discover and share news about their colleagues. The acquisition makes sense, and falls perfectly into Google’s recent line of action.

The acquisition would have Angstro founder, Rohit Khare joining Google’s social initiative. Though we aren’t aware on what his role at Google is going to be, I am quite sure that he will have a key one given his expertise and his vision for a more open form of social networking. Only time will tell how big and successful is Google Social Strategy going to be, I just hope it’s not an Orkut replica.

I am quite skeptical about the coming of new social networks, primarily because I don’t see a unique selling point in any after Facebook has almost absolutely dominated the social networking scene. Google on the other hand has been trying hard, albeit being very hasty with social releases which have ended up being not so impressive. I personally think Google should bolster its already existing services. I mean it already controls the Search, the video sharing with YouTube, the emails with Gmail that continues to evolve and have better features, like Making Phone Call from Gmail, which is very impressive. But with GoogleMe, the search giant has been cautious and taking its time, with making the right acquisitions, taking the right steps and more importantly not being hasty.

Is GoogleMe really something to look forward to? Leave us your answers in the comments.

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