Google Social Circle & Content (opens in new tab)

I admire Google for making information like this public.

This is not new. This has been there for quite sometime.

i don't get it. what problem does this solve... that i don't know who my friends are?

Its not a bad start..the problem I see UI wise its no very clear how it ties into the information stream produced..ie FB has a news or wall stream..right now GC and your GP stream are separate entities and that might not be the way to go with the UI..

they might be better off combining the GP and GC interfaces together in some significant way...

The linked page is part of the Google Social Search feature. It was launched in 2009. Information on the feature is available here: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer...

that's a rough and very large social circle (for me at least). I'd still expect circles or whatever "next-gen" social network to make setting up groups of friends and information control a very easy and pervasive process, enough to make me pry myself away from using email for group communication.

i feel like this wont spawn an equivalent to facebooks "like" button, or twitters "retweet" or "follow me". when i say that im referring to those buttons on third party sites. but then again it might be in googles interest to do so.

Does anyone else find this creepy?