So Google's Orkut hasn't taken off where it counts and the company missed its chance to buy MySpace for the half the price News Corp. paid for it. And Yahoo couldn't get Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg out of bed long enough to negotiate a successful buyout. Must be why both of them are working on new social networks on their own, on the sly.
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Well, one's on the sly, the other is just coming to light.
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Socialstream looks intended to be a one-stop social networking shop, allowing users to bring together data from several networks in one place to view it. They call it a unified social network, aimed at users over 20.
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Meanwhile, over in Sunnyvale, Yahoo is looking for "damn funny" interns to work on its new social network product. They'd rather you didn't know that though, and have most likely disowned, or at least disavowed, Michael Arrington's email evidence.
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