Google has brought their friendfeed clone, Google Buzz, into Google Mail. For those of us that use it for work and email, it’s pissed us off.
I’ve been with Google Mail since the beginning. When it was simple. When it still required an invite to get access to the service. Those were the days. It was by no doubt the best email service I had used and since then I’ve been using it for mostly all of my email addresses.
But I’m not too sure why Google it trying to bring this network together… but I see how they’re trying to make it successful. Simply put, they have millions of users in Google Mail. By bringing them into Buzz whether they like it or not (as it’s not exactly optional to start with), they’re growing a user base of forced users. It’s the ‘if you throw enough stuff at a wall, some things are going to stick’ approach. I don’t like it, and I don’t see why others would.
They’re using this approach because any other way they’ve tried to connect users has fallen into the pit. Half of you have probably not heard of their social network, Orkut. For me, Google Wave is becoming less and less of a feature of my day and day work approach. I hope this fails as well, so Google starts realising they can’t do everything.
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Dan said on February 11th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
Totally agree Craig. This is pointless, and on top of Google’s forays into smartphone industry, suggests that their fingers are in too many pies.
Search and Email is what Google do brilliantly; we don’t need them to try and dominate every aspect of our online existence.
Your humble tenant(!) ,
Dan
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Corinne said on February 11th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
How can they become the best unless they smite all their competition in every field of the internet though?
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