Google Buzz has me a lot more excited than for instance, Google Wave had. From a user experience perspective, Google Buzz should be far more appealing and adoptable to the general public.
The why’s;
- Status updates and short messages are simply here to stay. There’s far less impedance in three lines, public or private.
- Loose coupling. Follow is the word, not Friend - no reciprocating action required to build your social graph.
- Upon the shoulders of giants. Instead of launching a new service, build on what you have. When Google integrates Buzz into Gmail, the interaction paradigm is adjusted, but not reinvented.
From an Attention perspective, we’re heading the right way. It doesn’t feature read/unread and it doesn’t introduce another inbox (at least not on a separate location).
[Updated] One more thing – It’s disruptive too, with open data standards says ReadWriteWeb, which of course is awesome.
Finally – a tip of the hat to Roger Åberg of Bazooka and Feber.se for bringing the greatness of the real buzz to us in the last millenia with buzz.bazooka.se. Keep your head up, I’ll be back daily!
Tags: Bazooka, Buzz, Feber, Following, Google, Google Buzz, Social Graph, Status Updates
