Google: We May Offer Buzz Independently From Gmail

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Post by white_eskimo » Fri, Feb 12, 2010, 9:42 PM UTC

Google: We May Offer Buzz Independently From Gmail
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Re: Google: We May Offer Buzz Independently From Gmail

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Post by dkarl » Fri, Feb 12, 2010, 10:06 PM UTC

Once it's gone from gmail, nobody will use it and nobody will care. Massive fail for Google, strike two in the social networking department.

Re: Google: We May Offer Buzz Independently From Gmail

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Post by robotron » Fri, Feb 12, 2010, 10:12 PM UTC

dkarl wrote: post #2

Once it's gone from gmail, nobody will use it and nobody will care. Massive fail for Google, strike two in the social networking department.

Agreed, it won't really work outside of Gmail. Out of sight, out of mind and all that. It really needs clear privacy settings, clear demarcation of email contacts and social contacts (with the option for contacts to be in both).

Re: Google: We May Offer Buzz Independently From Gmail

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Post by jdrock » Fri, Feb 12, 2010, 10:17 PM UTC

dkarl wrote: post #2

Once it's gone from gmail, nobody will use it and nobody will care. Massive fail for Google, strike two in the social networking department.

Yep. The only reason it caught on was because it was made available through a tool everyone uses already.. kind of like how Internet Explorer is used..

Re: Google: We May Offer Buzz Independently From Gmail

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Post by davatk » Fri, Feb 12, 2010, 10:31 PM UTC

dkarl wrote: post #2

Once it's gone from gmail, nobody will use it and nobody will care. Massive fail for Google, strike two in the social networking department.

Strike three if you count OpenSocial. I have no idea if you should though.

Re: Google: We May Offer Buzz Independently From Gmail

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Post by thibaut_barrere » Fri, Feb 12, 2010, 10:31 PM UTC

jdrock wrote: post #4

dkarl wrote: post #2

Once it's gone from gmail, nobody will use it and nobody will care. Massive fail for Google, strike two in the social networking department.

Yep. The only reason it caught on was because it was made available through a tool everyone uses already.. kind of like how Internet Explorer is used..

And with landing pages that have obscene conversion rates (which is why people feel raped IMO).

Re: Google: We May Offer Buzz Independently From Gmail

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Feb 12, 2010, 10:49 PM UTC

dkarl wrote: post #2

Once it's gone from gmail, nobody will use it and nobody will care. Massive fail for Google, strike two in the social networking department.

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Re: Google: We May Offer Buzz Independently From Gmail

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Post by kqr2 » Fri, Feb 12, 2010, 10:52 PM UTC

All of this could have been avoided if they simply had a button that asked users if they wanted google to automagically add social contacts from gmail and give users a preview of what that would look like.

They should have also clearly indicated in the preview what was private and what was public.

BTW, what happened to their beta testing / invite only methodology? Also doesn't google beta test things internally first? If so, I'm sure they would have gotten very similar feedback from their 10,000+ employees.

Re: Google: We May Offer Buzz Independently From Gmail

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Post by marbletiles » Fri, Feb 12, 2010, 11:00 PM UTC

Headline here is completely wrong: the article stresses they'll keep it in GMail, they're just going to offer it to non-gmail accounts. This'll be GApps and is unsurprising, to me.

Re: Google: We May Offer Buzz Independently From Gmail

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Post by bobbyi » Fri, Feb 12, 2010, 11:02 PM UTC

dkarl wrote: post #2

Once it's gone from gmail, nobody will use it and nobody will care. Massive fail for Google, strike two in the social networking department.

I think this would be about strike six.