Scott Adcox

Doing More With Less Since 1972

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Google Plus Could Make Buzz a Real Product

July 5, 2011 / / 1 Comment

I’ve been playing with Google Plus for a few days now, and I really like it a lot. One of my favorite features is the Buzz tab on the user profiles. This makes Buzz an almost usable product. I think Google could not only make Buzz more viable but also improve Plus a lot by making a simple change.

Plus needs a Buzz gutter.

I’m seeing lots of people making public updates to Google Plus as if they are using Twitter, and the problem with that is that it’s filling up my Stream with information that…I already get from those people on Twitter. This is  a problem with Facebook as well–too much minutia showing up in the main stream. It would be nice if Google would bring Buzz up to the forefront, allowing users to enter those type posts with Buzz. They could also put a Buzz section in the sidebar for “short updates” and have that sorted by Circles just like what you see in the regular Stream.

It’s a pretty simple change, but it could breathe life into an almost dead product while also cleaning up the main Stream, solving one of the other big problems Facebook has.

Some Good Google Buzz Tips

February 12, 2010 / / 1 Comment

From: 5 Tips for Power Users

Now that you’ve got the buzzes hitting your inbox under control, let’s get serious about organization by using Multiple Inboxes.

There are some really good tips here, but the multiple inbox tip is probably the best. Even if you aren’t using Google Buzz (or don’t want to use it), multiple inboxes is a huge feature in gmail that will go a long way in keeping you organized.

Oh, and here’s a good article for the Buzz haters–how to disable Google Buzz. And there’s more to it than just clicking the link at the bottom of the page.

Stuff You Should See– February 5th through February 11th

February 12, 2010 / / 0 Comments

9 Studies That the Anti-Vaccination Movement Says Show Links or Bury the Truth – And a few notes on them. I don't understand the Latin parts, but I think the idea here is that these things keep a lot of people from getting really bad diseases, err, alive.

iPhone Is Buzz Compatible While Most Android Phones Aren’t – "Currently there is only an estimated 28% of Android devices in use that are capable of taking full advantage of these services. This is due to the fact that lower Android versions browser does not support HTML5, although the gears requirement is meet". How's that for ironic and frustrating?

Google Buzz in Enterprise – Will Need to Overcome Google Apps Limitations – More on Google Buzz in the Enterprise. This argument against it (for now) makes sense

A Butcher’s Tips for Avoiding Cuts in the Kitchen – We just bought a knife sharpener, and it scares me to have blades that will actually cut things now. Although, a sharp blade is probably safer.

A newspaper starts exiting the Web – Huh?! I guess if you're trying to kill your newspaper, it's better to kill it as quickly as possible instead of letting it suffer.

A “Miss Me” Billboard I Can Get Behind – For realz.

5 Reasons Why Google Buzz Will Fail – Funny!!!!

Consumer debt will hold back spending, holding back economic growth. – Don't be ridiculous. We just have to "get banks lending again". Right.

Why Buzz Could Succeed in the Enterprise

February 9, 2010 / / 0 Comments

…and why Wave may not.

When I was watching the presentation for Google Buzz, I couldn’t help but notice that a lot of the functionality was duplicated in Wave. So why could Buzz catch on where Wave hasn’t?

Because it’s not something “new”. It’s just something in addition to the email everyone is used to working with.

In large organizations, services like Yammer (which I love) are too much of a shift in mindset for too many people at once. But if something is introduced as simply an extended feature of a tool you’re already using, the game changes.

The enterprise LOVES its email. It’s smart to build a service on top of that instead of trying to establish a new service altogether, which is what Wave tried to do.

What I really love is that both of these products are coming out of the same company and look to be competing with one another on some level. The end user will be the ultimate winner as these two groups within Google try to make their product the standard.

As Sharepoint…either way, it was (sorta) nice knowing you.

Google Buzz. Want. Now!

February 9, 2010 / / 1 Comment

Google Buzz

  • Better group management than Facebook
  • Share photos and videos inline from Picasa and Flickr
  • Reduction of noise of posts you don’t care about (interested to see this one in action)
  • Comments at your inbox instead of going to a site.
  • Suggestions, suggestions, suggestions.
  • Oh, and instant indexing of your Buzz’s–VERY important for bloggers.
  • Unbelievable location based features

And still, I think the most potential is in the enterprise.

If it would only write to Twitter. Lot’s of people have a lot of equity built up over there and aren’t going to want to throw that away.

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