But what happens if Google will buy them?

It will create a direct competitor to all journalists and existing media channels, like Fox News, CNN or BBC.
Twitter users as “Citizen journalists” will post their stories and have adwords. They will publish their pictures on Twitpic and get paid for it.

Good news or bad news? It depends. Twitter isn’t an open platform, it is again an user silo. Good for Twitter, good for Google, sometimes too much in transparent for it’s users.

Google tried to realize the same deal with Jaiku 2 years ago.
Jaiku was a niche community before Google. After the deal more and more spammer joined Jaiku.
Last year Jaiku failed and Google gave up the project
(it will be opensource, but for me the project failed).

The biggest fact: a Google/Twitter deal will initiate a worldwide inflation of new Twitter users. Those news will spread the Twitter community worldwide,
because Google knows everybody and a lot of people will look on Twitter, if Google will announce the deal.

But what happens to Twitter, if the big news will spread and more and more users and more and more spammers will join Twitter?
Maybe it will be harder to track real information or to filter the right value for me.

So it’s time to jump on an open Twitter alternatives, let’s be more active on Identi.ca …

This video shows a user interface being bucket tested by Google to select (probably randomly determined) users. (recorded by Adrian Pike, CTO of Tatango).

Users vote search results up or down – a down vote makes it disappear with a “poof,” an up vote moves the result to the first page.

Google is also testing comments, with linked user names, and others can vote those comments up and down. In effect, this test shows a Google that combines their search algorithm with every important feature of Digg.
It’s something they’ve been working on for nearly a year in various iterations.

In near future they will add it to their Google Search experimental site, so we all can test it.

It is quite clear, that Google will add social search feature to their more and more spam-overwhelming crawling search result to optimize search results by user recommendation.

I think, Google will try to be a social search provider, but is Google really trustworthy to compete with the viral efficiency of independent services like StumbleUpon or Digg.

They are all keeping theire member’s data on their servers, while sending out notifications to as many sites as they can. These notifications may be widgets, apps, feeds, iframes – but its all the same strategy.

Davin Morin gave the first official statement about Facebook Connect in his blog post Announcing Facebook Connect on 9 My 2008.

Google Friend Connect Homepage shows a introduction video. The key features are a user can associate their OpenID with his account on a 3rd party site, combined with his OpenID friends and showing the user’s activity on the 3rd party site and/or broadcast in his friend’s news feeds (all without Facebook).

Mike Arrington’s TechCrunch post entitled MySpace Embraces DataPortability, Partners with Yahoo, Ebay and Twitter on 8 May 2008 gave some development notes on MySpace activities. But there were no details on an upcoming MySpace API like GData/OpenSocial and Facebook REST API)

By the way, Facebook has banned Google from interacting with their user date using Google Friend Connect. Read in Facebook Blog by Charlie Cheever’s Thoughts on Privacy on 15 May 2008.

What about interoperability?

The idea of social network interoperability isn’t visible in today’s Facebooks and MySpaces ot the world. They are still fundamentally data silos when it comes to the social graph.

It would be great if we can change that.