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Several sources are now rumouring that Google is planning an alternative social network – supposed to be a “Facebook Killer”.

Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg recently tweeted that Google is building a “Google Me” service to compete with Facebook.

This would be a huge move by Google and would take a lot to win over a lot of the seasoned Facebook users, but with the consumer confidence and a strong technical lead behind them maybe they can do it.

With Facebook recently topping the chart for the most popular website in the US, there’s obviously a reason for Google to step up to the plate and have a go at competing.

Details are still scarce, however the former CTO of Facebook Adam D’Angelo stated on his site that there are many people working on the project.

With the recent anger over privacy settings on Facebook, you have to wonder if Google are pushing to get this release soon to take advantage of the situation?

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As rumoured for a while, Google is venturing into the TV market.   They plan on embedding their Android platform into TVs and also providing set-top boxes.

The intention is to merge together the online web experience with regular TV viewing.

Announced at Google IO, they plan to release the product to market this Autumn.

Google are teaming up with both Sony and Intel to provide the hardware.  Both Paul Otellini (Intel CEO) and Howard Stringer (Sony CEO), pictured right, were involved in the Google announcement today.Google also have the backing of Adobe, bringing Flash to the platform for animation and gaming.

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Vic Gundotra (VP Engineering) snubbed Apple several times during the Google IO keynote by highlighting the integration work Google are doing with Adobe to bring Flash to the Android platform.

Take a look at the introduction to Google TV in the following video

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This is an impressive video from Google, highlighting just how fast their latest version of the Chrome browser is.

In the video, they pitch the browser against a potato gun, sound waves and lightning!

Very impressive and entertaining!   Take a look at the video below:

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