[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Google
is having a yet another go at a social media platform, this time
with Google Buzz. Buzz meshes input from third party social media
sites like Flickr and Twitter, and pulls in Google Mail, Google
Talk, Google Reader, and a number of other features in a way that
makes for a compelling platform. Has Google finally gotten it
right? Buzz has a few glitches, but the final product is worth a
look.“Last year, Google generated a ton of hype around Wave and
plenty of people were convinced that Wave was going to be a
fantastic collaboration tool that would mesh real-time and
asynchronous communication and provide the next big collaboration
and communication platform. Far from being the social media and
collaboration tool of dreams, when Wave finally hit the beach it
was with all the grace of a dead whale. In addition to the
platform’s obvious technical flaws, the roll-out was too
slow, giving only a small sub-section of users access —
leaving many users with no one to collaborate with on a
collaboration platform.”