>> With this move, Google is declaring war on a host of web companies that are heretofore thriving and collaborating and making tons of money. From the perspec

>> With this move, Google is declaring war on a host of web companies that are heretofore thriving and collaborating and making tons of money. From the perspective of those other companies they are indeed "declaring war" and it's all very dramatic... but for actual users, this is just another company competing for their attention by providing a better service. I expect the product will fail because Google sucks at social stuff, but in principle more competition is good, and unless a company competes unfairly through a monopoly (and they don't have one for email or social networking.)