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Re: Google Buzz

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Post by Lazlo_Nibble »

jonknee wrote: post #71
intellectronica wrote: post #50

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Actually the same can be said of your answer :-/ That the iPod was a me-too product is an interesting comment, because it reminds us to look at what was special about it (beautiful design, tight integration with the desktop and media store). What's special about Buzz?

When the iPod debuted it only worked on a small percentage of the world's computers and had no media store. It grew into a winner, but the first gen wasn't particularly special.

The first-gen iPod had Firewire (instead of pre-2.0 USB), the scroll wheel (vs. button-only interfaces), and it actually fit in a shirt pocket (vs. the Jukebox which was the size of a portable CD player).

Re: Google Buzz

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Post by jsz0 »

enneff wrote: post #137
jsz0 wrote: post #129

I'm going to reserve final judgement until I actually get a chance to use the service and see the direction Google wants to take it. My first reaction is not positive. This feels like Google's Microsoft Money moment Go into a market with an established leader, use your size and dominance to undermine the competition just because you're the 800lbs gorilla and you need to be fed at any cost. There doesn't appear to be…

Have you looked at the Geo features? The integration with several existing services? Of course it is not a new idea, but to say "just a Google logo" does a great disservice to the team who've been working hard on this project.

No, I haven't got it yet. That's why I'm reserving judgement of the actual service until I can use it. Google's engineers are fantastic and I'm sure it's a good service. My concerns are purely on the business/competitive side.

Re: Google Buzz

#145

Post by yummyfajitas »

alexandros wrote: post #98
gxs wrote: post #95

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I've been fortunate enough to never have been employed at a company where the employer things its good practice to ban certain websites. How common is this? What field do you work in?

Thankfully in academia things are very relaxed. I just thought of a friend who has this problem and then I realised I know at least 2-3 people in office jobs who have similar issues. I'm in the UK btw.

Academia is indeed relaxed. Most academics I know have their .forward file point to their gmail.

Re: Google Buzz

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Post by gcb »

google is going the way of older internet giants.

Their main focus is search and adwords ...and more recently snooping dns.

Now instead of letting facebook do their thing and google offering competitive ads, they choose to do facebook thing.

Now what? They are going to clone all the sites that their users spend more than 15minutes on?

They`re going to spread their peanut butter too thin.

Re: Google Buzz

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Post by badave »

gcb wrote: post #146

google is going the way of older internet giants. Their main focus is search and adwords ...and more recently snooping dns. Now instead of letting facebook do their thing and google offering competitive ads, they choose to do facebook thing. Now what? They are going to clone all the sites that their users spend more than 15minutes on? They`re going to spread their peanut butter too thin.

It's try to buy, and if that fails, try to compete. At Google's size, it would be very, very, very difficult to spread their peanut butter too thin, and their Superbowl Ad indicates that they are focusing on what everyone knows them best for and only dipping their feet into other pools that they can't buy into.

Re: Google Buzz

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Post by joeyo »

yummyfajitas wrote: post #145
alexandros wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thankfully in academia things are very relaxed. I just thought of a friend who has this problem and then I realised I know at least 2-3 people in office jobs who have similar issues. I'm in the UK btw.

Academia is indeed relaxed. Most academics I know have their .forward file point to their gmail.

Indeed. Gmail is just about the only successful pine killer I've ever witnessed.

Re: Google Buzz

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Post by qeorge »

moultano wrote: post #86
holman wrote: post #45

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Just as a nitpick: "the messages can be larger" is an anti-feature for me, and for many others that use Twitter. Inline images and videos is one thing, of course, but if longer messages was a feature then blogging would have defeated Twitter before it launched.

Most people can't figure out RSS readers, and twitter lets you read and write in the same interface. Everything else about twitter is an anti-feature, including the post length limit.

The main reason for the 140 char limit is SMS. When it launched, Twitter was mostly a way to do a sort of SMS listserv.

I wouldn't call the 140 char limit an anti-feature either. Its become a key differentiation point, and is in many ways what makes Twitter Twitter.

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