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Winer and the majority (all?) of those commenting act as if Gmail has been this walled-off pristine email client. WRONG. There is chat, RSS feeds, SMS, Calendar
by robotron 17y ago
Winer and the majority (all?) of those commenting act as if Gmail has been this walled-off pristine email client. WRONG. There is chat, RSS feeds, SMS, Calendar, Docs, Location and iGoogle gadgets, etc all bundled up in Gmail if you want them. It has never been just about email and might as well absorb status updates and Wave-isms. These people sound just like users complaining about every little change with Facebook.
- waterlesscloud 17y agoHow many use those features? So there's an indication of how many will use Buzz.
- houseabsolute 17y agoAll I'm saying is that I can't understand how anyone who uses Twitter regularly can claim to be bored with Buzz in an intellectually honest way.
- robryan 17y agoIt's the same criticism people have had with wave really "I log in, nothing much is happening, it's boring" Wouldn't facebook be pretty much the same if all your friends weren't posting?
- houseabsolute 17y agoFair enough, but considering Buzz has only rolled out to a small portion of gmail users, it's a premature in the extreme (hence "intellectually dishonest") to claim to be bored with it.
- robotron 17y agoWhat indication? Are usage metrics on those features public knowledge or something?
- enjo 17y agoI have no idea... do you? I use google-talk within gmail on a regular basis. All of our documents are in google docs. My calendar (both social and work) is a google calendar. While I'm not terribly interested in buzz, I'm not about to write it off simply because I'm not interested. The articles assertion that it's doomed by its API is just ludicrous. Twitters API is rather simple and plugging in yet another social network API hardly seems like a big project at this point. They're all pretty well abstracted out at this point.