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Is it safe to assume Google Buzz is a flop?

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Sure you can say it's only been out for couple months, but I don't see anyone jumping to it. When Google rolled out Gmail, it skyrocketed.
 
I think Google is afraid of Facebook and Twitter taking over the internet. Buzz seemed like a quick shot in the dark, given how poorly they thought about the privacy concerns at launch.
 
What was the thing where it posts your location for the whole world to see? Was that Buzz?

Saw it on my andriod, was like "hell no!" at enabling it.
 
gaidensensei said:
What was the thing where it posts your location for the whole world to see? Was that Buzz?

Saw it on my andriod, was like "hell no!" at enabling it.
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That's google latitude....

... and yes that's a flop too. Maybe Google should actually get a real marketing department and make it at least look like something I want to use.
 
yup wave too... i tried to get a convo going with a buddy and he hasn't even responded... some friend he is!
 
I use wave pretty extensively for group projects and homework discussion, but yeah outside of that it's hard to get to replace things like email, IM, or text.
 
I spent more time watching the Google Wave developer preview (2 hours!) than actually using it (like 10 mins).
 
I have a number popup in Gmail beside Buzz every now and again. I just click it so it will go away, and go on using Gmail as I normally would. Yep, its a flop.
 
Yeah, I'd say it's something they should give up on.

Their social networking site Orkut is a pretty big failure too, except that all of Brazil, Iran and I think India use it. Weird how that worked out.
 
Wierd up Google is good at a few things (search, gmail, maps,) but fails at anything else (wave, google apps?, buzz, chrome?, android?)

I think google should convert gmail to wave .. this will force a lot of users to start using wave
 
TuxDave said:
That's google latitude....

... and yes that's a flop too. Maybe Google should actually get a real marketing department and make it at least look like something I want to use.
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I think the press of countries BANNING it due to privacy issues made people afraid to try it.
 
fallenangel99 said:
Wierd up Google is good at a few things (search, gmail, maps,) but fails at anything else (wave, google apps?, buzz, chrome?, android?)

I think google should convert gmail to wave .. this will force a lot of users to start using wave
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Um...Chrome, Android, and Apps are some of it's biggest successes. Not sure where you got failure out of those. Android phones are flying off the shelves and making smartphones "must haves" for everyone, Google Apps is replacing MS Exchange in corporations and governments nationwide, and Chrome is gaining marketshare while pushing Firefox's numbers out. In fact, I think I read somewhere it's supposed to become the #2 browser sometime this year.

Where's the fail?
 
Myself and some friends got on buzz when it came out. Didn't see much point to it, though. Within a couple of days one of them pointed out the privacy thing (we didn't notice because, as said, didn't really use it much). We then all cancelled access and have not looked back. I see no point to it.

I saw a 30 min preview to Google Wave last year. Didn't much see the point. When it came out I got on it and again didn't really see the point. I mean I see it has its uses but for me no. I've not used it since.

I used Latitude last year a tiny bit but the only person on my list who had me on kicked me off after I made endless jokes about where she was, how I was looking through her windows, etc. pseudo-stalker crap and so that was that. I haven't used it since.

I do use chrome and gmail. You know, honestly, I'm as connected to people over the internet as I want to be. It's why I don't tweet, either. I just don't feel like I need a damned shunt to every person I've ever come in contact with for immediate digital communication.

Buzz seemed like a quick shot in the dark
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Yeah it absolutely did. This this this. It seemed as feature rich as I imagine the first build of facebook was and thinking you'd want everyone you've contacted to be able to contact everyone else through it is just fvcking stupid, who the hell oked that?
 
Google Apps is replacing MS Exchange in corporations and governments nationwide, and Chrome is gaining marketshare while pushing Firefox's numbers out.
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Really? I can't imagine many sizable organizations are ready to have all their sh*t hosted on google to have it indexed and archived for google's analytics to go and digest it in every possible way.
 
mjrpes3 said:
Where did you read that? Because that's not going to happen in the foreseeable future, and an impossibility this year. IE has 60%, Firefox has 25%, Chrome has 6% through March this year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
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That article is wrong. My company actually tracks web browser usage pretty closely for dev reasons. This is a more accurate chart:

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Firefox market share has actually been going down for the last year. Last projections I saw was they were expecting Chrome and Firefox to have growth somewhere around 20% by years end.
 
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