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Del posted an update: 2 years, 0 months ago
Suddenly everyone’s talking about Buzz as if it’s the next big new thing. Seems to me that buddypress can already do pretty much everything it’s offering… http://efx3.com/2010/02/09/google-buzz-is-it-really-all-that/
madLyfe posted a new activity comment: %s google has millions of users tho… and if you already have a gmail account, which most of us do, ur good to go… gunna be hard to take down the facebook giant tho…
Del posted a new activity comment: %s Exactly. They have viral marketing and a bigger-than-life ’brand name’, but what they’re doing is nothing new. Social networking exists in many iterations across the web and it’s only the person who can shout the loudest who’ll get the most users. Open source projects like buddypress offer much more attractive features, customer service and community care being two of the most appealing – but people will flock to the big name like sheep.
madLyfe posted a new activity comment: %s wouldnt say its all about ”sheep,” but i do think that i want to be at a place where i can be in contact with the most people i know… social networking is all about ”niches”.. in this case these big organizations focus on you as the niche focusing on niches… in smaller sites its about you focusing on a particular niche… ie common interests, diseases, cars, sports etc… thats how the big ones will always be the primary, that and they have millions/billions of $’s to spend on it(development/advertising)… here is a post i made on neowin.net about the announcement of googles ”buzz” (also showing a pro stance on google doing this):
”the way to make this big is if google can integrate well with facebook and twitter… more so facebook because everyone has it… and getting all of the people who were never into computers i can say that facebook was one of the main reasons those people started to check out the computer, then become glued to Fb, then become bored with it but hold on to it to keep in touch with all their friends and family.. its going to be hard to get my older extended family/parents to get them to use another social product(not matter how weird it is that they are on FB in the first place).. ”hey you should join this..” family – ”i can barely use facebook..” hope it works out tho.. i am pretty much google everything…”
erich73 posted a new activity comment: %s too much Buzz available ?
there is Yahoo-Buzz, now there is also Google-Buzz.
I guess I am gonan trademark that word….;-)
techkapil posted a new activity comment: %s yeah really…Yahoo introduced in 2008. And Google now…More surprisingly after Wave failure….!!!
techkapil posted a new activity comment: %s Well…it integrates with Gmail without sign up so 176 million user on the very first day…not a bad start though…