Rumors that Google was starting a Facebook competitor named “Google Me” first surfaced in June, right after the latest wave of anti-Facebook furor. Clearly, there is an opportunity to challenge Facebook for the social networking title. If Google is in it to win it, however, the company has to do a few things that Facebook isn’t doing—as well as a few things that Google has failed at in the past. Here’s what we’d like to see in a next-gen social network.
For later reading.