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 don't use it because it is Gmail. I don't want more distractions.
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#22All 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…
It's a land grab. They had to gain users and build social/advertising groups quickly. I think there's something going on behind the scenes with Twitter and/or Facebook that terrifies Google right now. Otherwise they wouldn't have made such a bone headed move. They know better. The deployment strategy was a carefully calculated risk in my opinion.
That's very interesting. What could Facebook possibly do to terrify Google? Maybe I'm not being creative, but I can't think of anything offhand. I'd love to hear some conjectures.
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It's a land grab. They had to gain users and build social/advertising groups quickly. I think there's something going on behind the scenes with Twitter and/or Facebook that terrifies Google right now. Otherwise they wouldn't have made such a bone headed move. They know better. The deployment strategy was a carefully calculated risk in my opinion.
That's very interesting. What could Facebook possibly do to terrify Google? Maybe I'm not being creative, but I can't think of anything offhand. I'd love to hear some conjectures.
Maybe Facebook moving into the e-mail area scares Google?
http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/05/facebooks-project-titan-a-f...
This would put Facebook in the middle of even more conversations/social interactions.
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Strike three if you count OpenSocial. I have no idea if you should though.
Jaiku? Orkut? We're on strike three at the most conservative count.
Good point, I forgot about Jaiku. I was counting Orkut as strike one though.
Dodgeball seems like a good candidate for number five.
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#25Once it's gone from gmail, nobody will use it and nobody will care. Massive fail for Google, strike two in the social networking department.
Stream based social networking is a mainstay web application. If it can be done better than Twitter and Facebook, it makes sense for Google to do it. Gmail provides a ready-made userbase, and unlike Jaiku from years ago, can be built from the ground up by Google.
Why doesn't Google adopt OpenMicroBlogging for Buzz? At the same time, I like the idea of posting long posts into my stream. Buzz should look at bloggers as well as micro-bloggers as potential users. The opportunity to create a news gathering network exists.