Google Buzz is the mushy middle
I use Facebook to interact with people I know privately.
I use Twitter to follow people I find interesting to filter the world.
What will I use Google Buzz for?
Mail is a subset of groups from Facebook and Twitter. I use it to correspond with people I do know and people I barely know. How do I align this in my head? Am I really going to share vacation pictures here? Or find great thinkers to follow?
Neither. Google is in the mushy middle with this. They’ve made the engineer’s mistake of adding features that can be added—but shouldn’t. And they’ve made the MBA’s mistake of talking themselves into an existing market rather than opening a new one.
Google Buzz is to Gmail what AIM pages were to AIM. An attempt to bolt new features onto a legacy system. Won’t happen.
The news to watch in email and communication is Facebook Titan. Aside from a full email client, providing a Facebook email proxy for your address is killer.
