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Google Buzz Buzzing Away
MrCrassic writes "It looks like the glory days of Google Buzz have finally come to an end. Google has formally announced the termination of this service to concentrate their efforts on Google+. From the article: 'In a few weeks we'll shut down Google Buzz and the Buzz API, and focus instead on Google+. While people obviously won't be able to create new posts after that, they will be able to view their existing content on their Google Profile, and download it using Google Takeout.' Other products, such as Code Search, the Google Labs website and Jaiku, will also be on the chopping block.
I really liked google wave. it made a good lab notebook. But wi
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Darn
Half the reason I ever use google, is for esoteric search tools like I can find on labs. Is there anyone who provides these kinds of metadata tools?
Google+ is next for the chop because the company just don't care about it enough, in my view. Not enough momentum to make it work, Facebook is just too big now and it is not going to succeed, I don't think.
I'm glad they're finally amputating the foot they shot themselves in.
I locked it down with the "go private and ban everyone" after their contact list goofup exposed craptons of information.
No way to find a list of people I'd banned made it impossible to reopen with my trusted friends.
I liked the way it integrated with GMail in a non-intrusive way. Just was another "folder" for me to click on at my leisure and post something quick if I wanted. I hope G+ takes up that spot in my "folders"
Have a good weekend everyone :)
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That is until they get bored with google+ and can it too.
glory days of Google Buzz
What glory days are we speaking of here? Oh, it was intended ironically, my bad.
I'm not surprised, because it is eminently clear that Google wants to concentrate their social features on Plus (in effect, to compete with Facebook by cloning Facebook), but I am still disappointed.
I genuinely like Buzz; it aggregates activity from a whole range of services that I don't care to deal with (personal blogs, google reader, twitter, tumblr, etc.) for easy reading, instead of being another one of those services (Hi Plus!). It was even better because it used an open standard mechanism for identity management to do what it did.
Apparently the APIs for re-posting into Plus from external sites are starting to come together, so I guess that is the migration plan, even though it isn't as open or convenient. It would be nice if Google would set up rel=me peering behavior for plus to replace the functionality.
They also announced that they're shutting down codesearch. That's much bigger news as far as I'm concerned. Sad to see a great tool disappear.
Code Search is the part I'll miss the most. Great for searching code samples (such as using threads in Perl etc) with some context (instead of a one-line snippet) and without junk like Experts-Exchange or unanswered forum posts. I also like the ability to search code inside a library along with third-party projects using this library, great for bugfixing.
Google is turning into Bing now. Answering common questions with helper scripts (flight info), and forwarding the user to Wikipedia if there is no predefined script. Except that Bing is doing this because their *real* search engine is a joke.
That was really useful; infinately more usable than many API documentation efforts. That was until they made it some javascript dependant thing. I tend not to have scripting enabled on machines where I'd doing things like compiling (performance) or checking into repositories (security). They killed code search a long time ago as far as I'm concerned.
I'm just left wondering how long before Google web search goes the same way...
Am I the only one who thought it'd died a while ago?
#DeleteChrome
What is it?
O.o
When did they actually start?
Apart from their core search Google are beginning to loose face, far to many projects started and thrown out. Who is going to invest time and effort using a google service when there is a good chance that it is going to be pulled? Unlike software installed on a computer you are forced to migrate when google decides to shut things down. It's not as though you can just carry on using the service until it no longer meets your needs. Not just a google problem but a wider problem for the whole software as a service concept.
do something good, give it to the community or open the code. buzz is great product, google just fucked it up.
Dread Pirate Bezos knows this. Why doesn't Google?
Today's announcement that Google is shutting down several services highlights one of the risks of the "Cloud". Your service provider can decide to shut down, and you have no control over it. My approach, rather, is to keep the primary copy of my data locally. I use the Cloud for backup, and when I want to share data with other people, or myself when I am mobile. Depending on the Cloud for something critical is very risky unless you have a written contract with your provider to keep the service going.
Code Search + Open source is a powerful combination for busting software patents. I've used Code Search to demonstrate to our legal team that many difficult patents have prior art in OSS. With all of the trouble Google's had with software patents, code search is the last thing they should pull.
Google, champion of the browser-based app, is inadvertently showing us the dark side of the 'cloud' concept.
When a installed app is discontinued by the provider you still get to use the last version for as long as you want.
When a cloud app gets discontinued, it's just gone.
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Headline fail, because "buzzing away" means a hive of activity where progress is being made. But the thing is shutting down.
Instead of dropping one, merge them. Blogger and Blogspot for example.
Did you mount a military-grade, variable-focus MASER on an unlicensed artificial intelligence?
No developer will get on your ship if you just keep shutting down services. I wont develop for a service that may soon shut down in future.
get your shit straight.
Read radical news here
Is that their indefinitely long beta runs and half-assed tools have kinda driven me away from them. The best tools they have are things that they have acquired after already doing well. The only original things I've ever seen them do well are gmail and search engine. Almost everything else seems really janky and thrown together to try to steal some of a market that they're trying to jump into several years too late. I understand the attempt to integrate it into a single sign-on, but I'm just tired of a ton of crappy tools that can't really be used well.
and good riddance.
... attention-seeking homosexuals.
buzz? Must've missed that one
I REALLY WANT TO DELETE MY ACCOUNT!
I'm just throwing this out there: I don't know anything about either API's; but, why not keep the Buzz interface and allow all existing Buzz enabled clients/sites to keep "Buzzing" and just pipe the posts to G+?
I was confused why the two weren't consolidated on day one. But I guess that was Google not being too confident about either service... too bad.
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IMHO the problem is that Google doesn't listen enough to user feedback. For me and, according to the feedback voting system, for a lot of other users too, the main problem with Wave was that it's separate from the existing user accounts of GMail. Many people didn't like having to sign up and log in to yet another application. Also, you have to drag all your buddies over to the new system, half or more don't so they're not reachable there. So when you have something important to share, you just grab GMail, because you know everyone will be able to receive it...
The same problem exists with G+. Only some of my nerdy friends use it, and many of them already have stopped posting stuff. I really don't get why Google doesn't simply add the new functionality to GMail, like they did with GTalk for instance. Or Buzz for that matter...
Anyway, users who were asked for feedback on Wave massively voted for the GMail integration feature but it never happened. Why?
Google should just throw an openness monkey wrench into the model of closed-social-media these sites follow. Releasing some common "social media standard interfaces", to be able to add onto and join all the different non-facebook social media sites. It's not interesting for an open web for these huge walled gardens to proliferate and become models. It wouldn't really require full functionality of all these sites, just some ways to link and message with each other would be a sea change. The best of the web is made of open protocols and interfaces.
Well, it makes sense, Google Buzz has out lived its use. I stop using it ever since it started to post my content by itself!
Soo, good bye and good riddance Buzz http://www.vectorash.ro/google-buzz-is-being-shut-down/