Carol writes: "The tweet sent a quiver through the blogosphere: "Google to launch Facebook competitor very soon." That line from Kevin Rose, the tech entrepreneur who founded the content-sharing site Digg, unleashed a sense that the online world as we know it was about to fundamentally change. Facebook - Google - Social network - Online Communities - Searching"

Paul told me about this - "Google has added yet another firm to its growing list of acquisitions in thesocial networking space with the purchase of Palo Alto start-up ?ngstr?."

Sara wrote:

I came across this post Saturday.

"A curious thing has been happening on Google Maps -- the Lincoln Memorial is being misplaced in favor of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, which is a good half a mile south of the more famous memorial."

Would anyone care to comment?

This one's for Crystal, I know he is reading.

Google continues to aggressively pursue social-networking capabilities, this time with the acquisition of Angstro.

I found this video and thought I would pass it along.

Google repaired an e-mail glitch in Gmail that sent repeated e-mails from users accounts to people on their contact lists.

My mother-in-law said she heard this on the radio.

"Google continues to expand its social expertise with the acquisition of Angstro , a small social networking start-up. Angstro builds apps to easily exchange information among social services across the Web, pulling in data from social sites including Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter."

she wants to know what you think.

This is the latest news as of August 28th.

"Google Beat will focus on the top search terms of the week, marking a rare occasion where Google has actively produced its own content."

I'll post more if I find anything else out.

"Google continues its pursuit of faster browser updates by pushing the developers build of Chrome to version 7."