Google Buzz?!

[d000hg]

I'd never heard of it, despite reading the Reg every day
Had Google kept it secret or am I out of the loop? I can't quite tell what it's for... they use words like "following" which puts me in mind of Twitter (yawn). But it also seemed to read a bit like a lame version of Wave (yawn again).

Anyone?

[administrator]

Just released.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/...ogle-buzz.html

Google FAIL would have been a better name if you ask me. Missed the boat I am afraid. Is a bit like their IM system. Anybody use it?

Is anyone actively using Google wave? Gave it a go but just can't be arsed. Life is too short!

[cojak]

Just released.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/...ogle-buzz.html

Google FAIL would have been a better name if you ask me. Missed the boat I am afraid. Is a bit like their IM system. Anybody use it?

Is anyone actively using Google wave? Gave it a go but just can't be arsed. Life is too short!

WHS.

I'm on Google chat but I'm the only person in the world who is it seems, and I just don't grok Google Wave.

I suspect this will go the same way.

[AtW]

Google's doomed...

[SueEllen]

Google FAIL would have been a better name if you ask me. Missed the boat I am afraid. Is a bit like their IM system. Anybody use it?

I've only used it with 2 mates who happened to be on their gmail at the same time as me.

Interestedly I've had more chat conversations on facebook and I check that on average once every 2 weeks there as I'm on email several times a day.

[Moscow Mule]

Can you use it if you don't have gmail? If no, how is this going to be any use for individuals?

[lilelvis2000]

Tried Google Wave but nobody wanted an invite! So gave up on that. Google Buzz will be a Googleflop IMHO.

[SueEllen]

Can you use it if you don't have gmail? If no, how is this going to be any use for individuals?

They are relying on the fact that lots of people have gmail accounts.

However the only people I know with gmail accounts tend to work in the computing and marketing industries.

[dang65]

I'm quite surprised that Google have gone for this Buzz thing. They usually come up with far more original stuff (even if they do it by buying up other people's creations), but I suppose they have to keep chucking things out and moving forward.

Google Wave, on the other hand, is truly revolutionary. I guess, to use a cliche, it is simply ahead of its time. I've been amazed at the response of so many tech-savvy people who have simply said, "Yeah, I gave it a go, couldn't see any use for it..." Wave has almost limitless uses. You could spend your entire online life inside Wave because you can share absolutely everything through it.

I guess the Wave launch was ever so slightly melodramatic (a 40-minute intro video?) and got a lot of people excited, and then they went into Wave and couldn't actually find anyone to communicate with and it just went flat. But its potential is stunning and I think we'll start finding it being integrated more and more into other applications and websites over time.

Buzz doesn't grab me in anything like the same way, but I'm not into social networking at all anyway.

[TheFaQQer]

My only Google Wave contacts are MrsF and RealityHack. I've used it precisely 0 times - but did like the Google Wave Cinema version of Pulp Fiction (NSFW).

I can't see the point of Buzz - I already use twitter and facebook, so don't want to start doing a similar thing in yet another format.

Too little, too late - I still love gmail and Google Docs though (although they need to handle bigger .doc files )