Can Google Docs 'Discussions' Transform Office Drudgery Into a Social Network?
Rumors of a new social network from Google fizzled as fast as they rose at the South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas, over the weekend but did Google, in fact, just introduce a new type of social network...in Google Docs?
Rumors of a new social network from Google fizzled as fast as they rose at the South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas, over the weekend but did Google, in fact, just introduce a new type of social network…in Google Docs?
In a seemingly impossible feat, Google may just have made most dreaded of office tasks, collaborating on a document with colleagues, as fun, and easy, as ‘poking’ them on Facebook with the new “Discussions” feature added to its Google Docs tool.
The change is designed to make the document-sharing tool more “discussion-like” with social elements borrowed from Facebook and Twitter, according to a
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