YouTube - Google Files Patent for Social Hub

"Google recently filed a patent for, what may be, one aspect of its highly anticipated social strategy. Bill Slawski of SEO by the Sea first wrote about the filing on his site and hinted that it could be an indication of what Google's social network might look like.

"It looks like Google's trying to bring together a lot of different social offerings that they already have in one place," he said.

Slawski described it as a "social hub" and speculated that it could be a centralized platform that consolidates multiple social interactions both from Google and other social entities."