I discussed Joga before, but it’s appearing in the news, so if you’re interested, have a read.

So far, in its short-yet-powerful history, Google has had two glaring gaps in its arsenal of services: social networks and a financial site. Both of these issues have been dealt with in the past week with the unveiling of two new services that Google will offer its users.

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The first is Joga.com, which is a joint venture with Nike it has been working on for the past eight months. Joga will be a social network based on soccer. Google does have a social networking site already in Orkut, which has been a failure in every country not named Brazil.

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Our previous coverage of Joga can be found here.