You’re better off having a laugh, getting pissed and forget all about it.
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Pressed the self-distruct button on Buzz
Okay. Everybody who knows me knows what an early adopter and tech nerd I can sometimes be. Where ever a beta test, I am on the invite list.
In the case of Google Buzz, I was just the same: hopped on the big band wagon the moment people said it will even be approaching.
So no hesitation the moment Google asked me on the login screen of my Gmail account if I wanted to give Buzz a try. I have done so with other Google stuff. There were definitively great things. But also things I tried - like Google, Wave, Picasa or Android - that did make sense however just not to me. But there was nothing like Google Buzz before: Tried it, saw the point in it, however yawned at it, pressed the self-distruct button.
I think Google has done something fundamentally wrong with Buzz. And it is not the privacy dilemma the service has been facing. It did something that existed already in many ways. Twitter. Identica. Tumblr. Facebook even. You name the service. But instead of offering a true advantage over other services or instead of offering a particular service to a even peculiar niche, it simply just copy-pasted Twitter’s functionality EXCLUDING the open-ness.
Don’t do anything evil.
Now we all know this phrase from Google. Yet they might be a bunch of good-meaning guys, why do you all of a sudden corner into a stance of Microsoftitis? Closed systems, closed APIs, only use OWN products in combination with other products…
You know, the big success of the Facebooks and Twitters was that these services are to a certain degree open and interconnectivity is definitively regarded as bon ton.
Take me. I’ve got tumblr for this blog. I totally love it. My tumblr-based blog sends any updates directly over to my Twitter account which in turn updates my Facebook status message. Why do I do that? Well: I prefer tumblr as a blog service. I love Twitter for communicating. However I have tons of friends at Facebook who do not use Twitter or tumblr. - Now try doing that with Buzz…
Followers like mad.
One thing that “buzzed” me over buzz however: I instantly had a LOT of followers. Wow I thought. Well. No. I had many followers but the hell did they not really follow me. Not like on Twitter where communication amongst me and my followers and I follow is daily routine. So what’s the entire point in Buzz?
- Privacy remains shitty
- Lot’s of people on it that have no idea what its all about
- Little to no communication
- No real interchange of information with any other service
So: today I have pulled the plug on Buzz. Deleted it entirely from my Gmail account. Not only disabled it.
Do so too. Say no to Buzz. We don’t need it! Noone does!
Google created Wave, an innovative collaboration tool that brings people together so they can work to figure out what Google Wave is good for.
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Your hourly rate is okay, as long as you don’t need more than an hour. And you can show me how you did it so I can do it on my own next time.
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Can you call Google and ask them when the website will show up in the search results?
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