Comments on: Buzz – Sizzle or Fizzle? http://stardustglobalventures.com/2010/02/18/buzz-sizzle-or-fizzle/ Home of Sheryl Breuker Media & Ken Camp Consulting Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:35:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Reading Links for February 19th | Stuart Henshall http://stardustglobalventures.com/2010/02/18/buzz-sizzle-or-fizzle/comment-page-1/#comment-4019 Reading Links for February 19th | Stuart Henshall Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:01:26 +0000 http://stardustglobalventures.com/2010/02/18/buzz-sizzle-or-fizzle/#comment-4019 [...] Buzz – Sizzle or Fizzle? @kencamp took me less than 3 minutes last week to decide to turn it o... – I'm still catching up on the Buzz hoopla yet for me Buzz was another reminder that Google has too much of me and that goes for a lot of other companies too. I want control of me. That's why I like my own Wordpress. I don't mind fragmenting myself over various services and I use them in different ways. Still… this to me is a message. Google wants too much of me… and I for one don't really like it. [...] [...] Buzz – Sizzle or Fizzle? @kencamp took me less than 3 minutes last week to decide to turn it o… – I'm still catching up on the Buzz hoopla yet for me Buzz was another reminder that Google has too much of me and that goes for a lot of other companies too. I want control of me. That's why I like my own WordPress. I don't mind fragmenting myself over various services and I use them in different ways. Still… this to me is a message. Google wants too much of me… and I for one don't really like it. [...]

]]> By: Ken http://stardustglobalventures.com/2010/02/18/buzz-sizzle-or-fizzle/comment-page-1/#comment-4010 Ken Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:56:09 +0000 http://stardustglobalventures.com/2010/02/18/buzz-sizzle-or-fizzle/#comment-4010 To be clear, I haven't abandoned Buzz. I'm simply not using it for now. I've turned it off in Gmail. My reader posts and whatever's linked will still show up there. I just won't be seeing anyone's comments or engaging there. At least not via Gmail interface. I have the app on my iPhone but have found it even less satisfying than the Gmail interface. I may look at it when I'm totally bored, but am moving the app off to my dead zone screen of apps that are installed but I don't use. I keep them so I can see every now and again whether I've missed something and want to use them. The Google Buzz app, isn't an app at all. It's just a browser shortcut in the first place. To be clear, I haven’t abandoned Buzz. I’m simply not using it for now. I’ve turned it off in Gmail. My reader posts and whatever’s linked will still show up there. I just won’t be seeing anyone’s comments or engaging there. At least not via Gmail interface.

I have the app on my iPhone but have found it even less satisfying than the Gmail interface. I may look at it when I’m totally bored, but am moving the app off to my dead zone screen of apps that are installed but I don’t use. I keep them so I can see every now and again whether I’ve missed something and want to use them. The Google Buzz app, isn’t an app at all. It’s just a browser shortcut in the first place.

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