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Why should Google not have a Buzz tab? Edit: Also, you can show or hide the tab. So if you don't use Buzz and you don't want that tab shown on your profile, ju
by seancron 16y ago
Why should Google not have a Buzz tab?
Edit: Also, you can show or hide the tab. So if you don't use Buzz and you don't want that tab shown on your profile, just hide it. However, this way Google can let their users that still use Buzz display it on their profile.
- zaidf 16y agoBuzz symbolizes everything wrong with Google's social strategy. They need to move on. Linking to dead properties and adding a few fields isn't going to fix social.
- moultano 16y agoWhat does it mean for a product to "symbolize" something? Is it the product you are objecting to or the branding? (There are also pockets of really high quality activity on buzz. See Terence Tao's very active feed for instance: https://profiles.google.com/u/0/114134834346472219368/buzz https://profiles.google.com/u/0/114134834346472219368/buzz )
- zaidf 16y agoIt's a product with very little traction and an inferior experience to what's already in the market(twitter, fb). Unfortunately pockets of traction for a product as old as Buzz means very little. Social for big guys like fb and google is about scale, not niches.
- magicalist 16y agoit depends on what you mean by "experience." I think buzz is easily superior to twitter, but I use twitter because the community I engage with is there. does the existence of picasa's online albums somehow harm google because only some people use them?
- alanh 16y agoHere’s my discussion on the Buzz user experience, from a year ago. http://alanhogan.com/buzz-is-already-dead http://alanhogan.com/buzz-is-already-dead (tl;dr: Too distracting, not very skimmable, awkward social aspects including too many non-friends showing up.)
- methodin 16y agoBuzz is actually way more useful to me than facebook and twitter. The functionality is the same, obviously, but the fact that I can switch tabs while in gmail to check posts is pretty useful. Sadly I only know 2 people that use it, and mostly, it's automatic posts from twitter.