Reports are out that Google Base will be launching soon, perhaps even today. Dirson has a screen shot
up on Flickr and additional images are on Wouter Schut̢۪s blog
.
Google Base appears to be a service to publish content directly to google and have them host it in a centralized way. If so, this would be going completely against the accelerating trend of decentralized publishing.
My prediction: when the dust settles, this will either be largely ignored or universally hated. Centralized content is boring…so much is going on at the edge of the web, why would anyone try to put it all back in the center?
Philipp Lenssen has more details, including the text from the screen shot below: