As a result of the Web 2.0 conference this week in San Francisco, there were several announcements yesterday that will have a big impact on the social networks and websites we use on a regular basis. Google is especially on a roll! And music site LaLa is now a player I'll be watching closely.
- Google to launch Social Search that will allow you to see results from people in your social network - Google to roll out a social search engine
- Flickr launches People in Photos functionality to easily tag friends and family - Flickr Adds People Tagging. And It’s Better Than Facebook’s
- Google to include Twitter content in search results – Google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my!
- Bing will start indexing Twitter content as well as Facebook data into its search results - Facebook Bets On Wisdom Of Friends
- Google partners with LaLa and iLike to launch Google Audio - Google Music Service: The Screenshots
- Facebook launches Music Gifts powered by LaLa - A New Tune for Facebook Gifts
- MySpace will launch the MySpace Artist Dashboard, which will show artists detailed data about their fan base - MySpace Double Whammy at Web 2.0
And in case you missed it last week, YouTube announced that search functionality on the site will include comments posted to videos - Welcome to the new web: Real-time comment search is live on YouTube