What's the Buzz?
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 11:33PM Ok...Mobile is Big, we know that, but increasingly it's hard to keep up with all the products and services being thrown into the mobile Mix. The latest, Google Buzz is just out and it purports to be a lot of things. Will it catch on? How is it different from all the other services out there about status? Facebook updates, Twitter, Friendfeed and even Google's own Latitude product (sadly not available in Ireland) not to mention Foursquare, Loopt, Locle and many, many others...
After watching the introductory video, I really can't see what the standout feature is going to be and to be honest, can't see the point. If people want to know what I'm doing right now - go to my Twitter, if they want to know more than that, read this blog. I'm not sure if this permanent "connectedness" through all these multiple channels is actually going anywhere, other to enhance carriers revenue, increase the amount of Ads google can serve, and play to the "look at me" tendencies of those with the attention span of a gnat...
Rant over...