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This new product is like a meteor that hit everyone I know. What is it? Is it good? Do I like it, do I hate it? I blogged briefly about it, but it's overwhelming in it's implications. What are your User Experience thoughts of Google Buzz? Some topics:
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Greatest feature of Google Buzz:
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I feel the same as everyone else. Massive privacy concerns, although anyone using Google apps or services has to accept that everything ends up in their profiling engine. For me and my friends and family (i.e. bunch of 30-40 somethings) there's no buzz and no real need to use it (or want for that matter). Perhaps we're not the intended user group. The kids these days love this kinda thing - "ooo shiny, who cares if they're barcoding my forehead?" ;) I wasn't that enamoured with Wave either tbh, but then again, I'm not a collaborative worker. I'm going to stick my neck on the line here and suggest one MIT grad too many? N |
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Regardless of the obvious privacy issues with the product, I think Google made a big mistake when they didn't clearly explain how Google buzz fits in your day-to-day use of social networks. Or, in other words, they didn't explain to twitter/facebook/whatever-else users why and how they should use Google Buzz instead (or with) what they're currently using. Everyone I know (including me) played with Buzz a little before turning it off. People won't regularly use (or switch to) another product only because it's a bit better. They need compelling reasons to do so. |
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I don't understand the point of it. It is trying to look like twitter, while pulling in things from your contacts from all over the place, and it is just a huge mess to look at. I checked it out for about 5 minutes before I gave up completely. |
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Google obviously wanted to use what they already had - your Gmail contacts. However, are those contacts the same people that you'd like to share that information with? Perhaps, but in a lot of cases, no. |
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I like the way they went about implementing it. The challenge for new social networks is convincing people to set up new accounts and upload a bunch of content. Buzz requires neither as it hooks into the platforms people already use to share photos and videos etc (which I realise are mainly owned by Google). As an enhancement to Gmail I quite like it although I probably won't use it a great deal. I'm more likely to adopt Buzz as a network than I am Facebook as an email service. |
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