Google Plus seems to have been created with a lot of care and a single-minded focus on a goal. That goal being to get Google a popular and first class social product.
Google Plus is powered and made more potent thanks to all their various products. Here are 5 online services or companies that could be seriously hurt in the future with the rise of Google+.
#1. Skype
Google Plus has something called Hangouts. This allows group video chatting for free. This stands in stark contrast with Skype which charges for group video chatting.
Skype is backed by Microsoft and unless Microsoft does something spectacular, there is a good chance that Google+ will gobble up Skype users slowly but surely.
#2. Yahoo
Picasa never took off but now as part of Google+, it has got a new lifeline and might dislodge Flickr. With a coming together of all Google Products in Google+, might simply be too much for Yahoo to survive.
#3. Linked In
Google+ and its rise is also promoting the idea of Google Profiles. Not many people took interest in creating Google Profiles but it automatically comes to the fore with Google Plus.
If Google+ becomes a place for putting up professional resumes, then there is a good chance it might challenge Linked In over the next few years.
#4. Twitter
The early rise of Google+ might not wean away people from Facebook as much as it could from Twitter.
#5. Facebook
With Google+, the issue is settled. Gmail will not be threatened by Facebook as it will have to keep improving essentially as a social product to stave off competition from Google+.
This might be good news as Facebook was taking its users for granted with privacy and design changes. Next time with Google+ around, it might be that easy at all. Also competition is always good for the end users, that is us.
What are you views on Google Plus? Will it seriously challenge these companies? Do drop in your comments.
7 Comments
Skype is obviously in danger. 🙂
Facebook is in real danger now definitely it will not be able to compete with Goole+ as on the new features keep on rolling out.
Facebook is in real danger because it seems to be taking too many things for granted recently. Maybe that might change. 🙂
LinkedIn is to stay as it has corporate backing. It is officially allowed in big software companies where Google (except Search) and Facebook remain blocked. It has its own flavor and nothing can endanger that.
I agree Linked In has its own flavour, but it also has to make money from particularly from head-hunters or job-seekers. This could see competition from a mix of Gmail and Google+ in the future.
I don’t thing google plus will be giving neck to facebook, as its tough to reach 500 million users.
Twitter seems to be in least danger among the list!