Google is not giving up on its social ambitions, it seems, despite its failures with Google+. The sessions are listed by time and date, and allow you to easily add them to your Google calendar.
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Spaces is a place where you can create conversations with groups – in fact Google refers to it as a small group messaging app.
Google, however, is kicking off the launch of Spaces by rolling out a space for each session at its Google I/O developer conference this week.
It’s nice that Spaces makes it slightly easier to share links, but chat rooms are more than just link hubs. Google Spaces is a new app that, at first glance, looks to be an amalgamation of Hangouts and Google+ Communities, with a sprinkling of messaging on top.
Google will never run out of new ideas.
The Google Search app also comes with a search option which allows the users to search for content that was shared on the group earlier. The process is the same as writing a review for an already available app, though in this case the feedback doesn’t show up publicly.
Participants can respond to articles, photos, videos, and comments, adding their own links and images to the conversation. When a user shares new content, there’s a conversational view that will let the user see what everyone in the group is saying about it.
Google has a worse track record with social apps than Wile E. Coyote does with catching the Road Runner.
In a blogpost, Spaces product director Luke Wroblewski said the tool is meant to cut out the hassle of switching between apps to copy and paste links when sharing content from the web.
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If someone has contributed to any of the spaces you’ve joined or created, you will receive a notification in the Activity center, which you can access from the main menu bar at the bottom of most screens within the app. At work too, you could just tap to start a topic and gather a few people around it. The app (or web version) logs you in with your Google account and you’re good to go. But commenters on the company’s announcement are skeptical that Spaces will be the right fix.
