[JamesW]

I do remember recent media coverage saying that wikipedia was to challenge Google because they felt it was wrong for one giant to control so much of the internet...

I tend to agree... Orkut is a disaster... OpenSocial will never take facebook out... not unless they pull it together and offer functionality in the specs which actually unite social networks ( I could be too skeptical )... and I doubt this venture will take out wikipedia... I understand evolution...

But Google has stopped innovating... now they are parasites using their weight to take out everyone else... Their ventures are direct attacks against current businesses... ( good businesses ) they have stopped innovating and pushing concepts which really matter... they are now officially an out of control money making machine harvesting all known resources on the internet...

This has been proven to me... however I am open minded and look forward to seeing how it evolves... I could always change my views tomorrow...