Gmail Challenge Facebook in Update Status

Google intends to challenge Facebook by launching a new feature that enables Gmail users to easily view and manage social status updates details.

This new module, quotes the Wall Street Journal, may be introduced this week. Module is expected to show the flow of updates from people who are connected with a Gmail user.

"This stream will cover the content that a user shared via YouTube and Picasa. But it is uncertain whether that feature will be announced in coming days, writes Jessica E. Vascellaro to the WSJ.


"[Clearly], Google is trying to make the users switch to Gmail as a place where they could see what was happening with her friends. But whether Internet users will want to combine e-mail by looking at the content of his friends are not yet clear . "

Vascellaro said, Google has tried to turn Gmail into "more than just e-mail service" for years. He added that Google's latest idea of sticking just a week after Facebook introduced a new design.

One analyst speculated that the social networking sites are growing rapidly can displace Google as the leader of the world news reader. "Facebook is the interface that is known and loved hundreds of millions of people. This newsfeed model popularized by Facebook and so trigger a subscription news that it will be more easily used than make people use something new, "explained Marshall Kirkpatrick from Read Write Web.

"Special messages as well (can) posted directly to the readers. Facebook is not the only channel" publish and langganlah ", he is a communication opportunity wider than the offer specialized RSS readers. It makes more sense for users and more attractive for publishers. "