Who needs tipsters and blurry photos when you’ve got one of the world’s biggest companies, leaking its upcoming social service right in its own ad? As you can see in the Chrome browser toolbar, there’s a little Google +1 extension which is said to perform duties just like Facebook’s “Like” buttons you see dotted around the web (there’s one on this post, for example.) [TechCrunch]
Initially called a “Facebook killer”, Google Me is now said to be a social toolbar/Chrome extension – but don’t get too disappointed. Rumourmongers are saying the project’s so big Sergey Brin is playing an active part in the development.