Google Goes Social (live blog)

Google is hosting a press conference at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters this morning at which it is widely expected to make a Gmail-related announcement--more specifically, that it's getting social features along the lines of Twitter and Facebook's status updates. Considering Google's quiet killing of Jaiku, a Twitter-like service it bought in 2007, it should be interesting to see what the company envisions as the ideal social sharing tool. Click here for CNET News.com's live blog from the event.
By Josh Lowensohn