What's coming from Google? Something exciting and Twitter-killing, which will be announced in a press conference today. Anticipation is building fast. The Wall Street Journal announced yesterday that Google is adding a new feature to let Gmail users view media and status updates from their friends. "If Google is smart, these status updates will pour into and out of Facebook and Twitter..." says Silicon Alley Insider. "Otherwise, it's hard to see how this feature won't end up as another in a long line of Google products that tried, and failed, to beat popular services from Web rivals." (But Google will never connect to Facebook or Twitter, John Battelle's Searchblog claims.) "The intent is to keep people's attention centered on Google, by making Gmail, not Facebook, people's first stop online--and their default place to send and receive messages," explains Epicenter. Scobleizer lists several reasons why although Google's social networking initiatives (like Orkut) have failed in the past, this one might work--for example, "This time they built everything in house," "Employees on board," and "Twitter looks attackable."