Ok, so the rapture didn’t start late.  But the first two things are true.

Can Google actually make a social media platform successful?  Well, it is trying… again.

In all honesty, I really like this concept.  Google is dominating the social media news landscape today with its unveiling of Google+, which began rolling out just yesterday.

Most notably, Google+ seeks to categorize your friends into different “buckets.”  I won’t do the video justice trying to explain it, but many are speculating that this might have the ability to battle Facebook.

Just another flop that won’t make it out of the gate (see: Google Wave)?  Or could this have some staying power?

Oh, and in other news… MySpace finally was sold!  News Corp. paid $580 million back in 2005, and today the all-but-dead social networking site was sold to an advertising network called Specific Media for $35 million.  Yowza.

Matt Smedley