“It Was All A Dream…”
Mar/10N/A
Rest In Peace, Big.
“‘Cause he greatest rapper of all time died on March 9th…”
Didn’t really have that many but I got a Google Buzz.
Feb/10N/A
Google got e-mail right but they also got Wave wrong* so when I first heard about Google’s newest product, Google Buzz, I took it with a grain of salt (and a lime).
Buzz aggregates the online activity of your mostly recently contacted e-mail contacts (and additional recommended sources) and beams it all directly into your gMail Inbox. Buzz has the potential to be a calm serene social-media-zen-garden; an easily accessible feed of fresh content from a smaller, closer-knit network of content-creators and content-sharers.
- Twitter is at its core a vanity-driven instant message service chock-full of millions of people, all broadcasting in the hope that everyone else will tune in and listen to their message.
- Facebook is even more noisy. I know I’m not the only person who’s gotten sick & tired of having to constantly hide Farmville, Quiz or Contest giveaway application updates from their news-feed, just so its easier to get to the good shit.
Buzz attempts to bring the best features of each service together — all the vanity and vetted links & content of friends, family and colleagues — while simultaneously recommending posts and content you might like based on the content & status updates you’ve decided to share publicly.
Right now Buzz only supports content aggregation from a few social networks — Google chat status, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube.com, Google Reader & Picasa for now — but what about importing content from Tumblr? Or Wordpress? Or Blogger? Or the big dog Facebook?
I really want one omniscient social media client/app to take tame the stream of my online content but Buzz needs to be able to pull in more of my the content from my Facebook & Tumblr contacts/friends or else their recommended content feature will really need to be amazing and pick up a lot of slack.
Regardless, for the time-being at least, I’m buzzing.
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*Some might argue that Google Wave was a communication tool sent back in time from the Google of the future and we weren’t supposed to get it… yet. But most people, myself included, think it was just a failed experiment.
Try. Fail. Learn. Fast.
Jan/10N/A
Don’t be afraid to try and try often.
See what works and what doesn’t. Its important that you learn the difference between the two very quickly.
Learn what not to do next time from all of your bruises and scrapes.
And finally, don’t sit around licking your wounds; get back to trying.
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