Buzz? No buzz.

[viktor_haag]

Frankly, I see little point in having my Google-aware net-presence aggregated into their Buzz tool. This may be the thin edge of the luddite wedge, but at the moment I can't be bothered to cultivate my Buzz activity. I have, therefore, nuked my Buzz profile: now, if Google would be so kind as to remove its appendage from my mail page, that'd be groovy.

Comments

[sixteenbynine.livejournal.com]

I wrote a middling assessment of Buzz for ComputerWorld a couple of weeks back. I think social networking as a whole has flattened out, and it's time for it to mature into a tool rather than just a ... buzzword.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

Agreed. I had the same feeling about Wave. It looked all very fine and all, but it desperately needed two things: a critical mass of users (and then there's question of how well it would scale to fit that mass), and expertise to figure out how to use it ((that is, having something useful to do with it).