Buzz was a Twitter clone, but it was too little too late. Anything you can do with Buzz, you can do with Google+.
Wave was an attempt to replace traditional email, but it only outperformed email under some circumstances, say, if you were collaborating on a group or something. There is a gap between Wave and Gmail but using Gmail saves the hassle of learning the whole new concept of communication.
And for a communication tool, if it fails to archive mainstream adoption, it fails. You can't learn a cool new language while everyone's talking in legacy English.
For Reader, it's quite a different thing actually. Google does not provide a decent alternative. Some of you might say social networking sites can be used to get news, I think it's rarely the case for everybody, especially for international users outside of US/UK. I live in a country where every big sites support RSS but very few support social networks. All I can get from social networking sites is funny pictures and inspirational quotes, sometime unconfirmed rumors. Few to none news websites/journalists can be found on social networks, if there is, news is not reliable enough.
Once upon a time, Google was cool and they cared about making cool products before they even figured out how to make money with it. That day has now long gone.
I can Ctrl+Click [to open link in a background tab] in any other browser BUT Opera.
There is no easy way to make this handy feature work without a hack because you cannot re-map ctrl left_click.
So you never ctrl+clicking or none of you ever actually use Opera at all?
Slashdot Mirror
If you can call that laptop
Buzz was a Twitter clone, but it was too little too late. Anything you can do with Buzz, you can do with Google+.
Wave was an attempt to replace traditional email, but it only outperformed email under some circumstances, say, if you were collaborating on a group or something. There is a gap between Wave and Gmail but using Gmail saves the hassle of learning the whole new concept of communication. And for a communication tool, if it fails to archive mainstream adoption, it fails. You can't learn a cool new language while everyone's talking in legacy English.
For Reader, it's quite a different thing actually. Google does not provide a decent alternative. Some of you might say social networking sites can be used to get news, I think it's rarely the case for everybody, especially for international users outside of US/UK. I live in a country where every big sites support RSS but very few support social networks. All I can get from social networking sites is funny pictures and inspirational quotes, sometime unconfirmed rumors. Few to none news websites/journalists can be found on social networks, if there is, news is not reliable enough.
Once upon a time, Google was cool and they cared about making cool products before they even figured out how to make money with it. That day has now long gone.
LastPass Extension For Opera Released
I can Ctrl+Click [to open link in a background tab] in any other browser BUT Opera.
There is no easy way to make this handy feature work without a hack because you cannot re-map ctrl left_click.
So you never ctrl+clicking or none of you ever actually use Opera at all?
Does it have a 'real' delete button?
For FREE. And for those who are going to import GContacts to FB just to post a complaint, you can do it here http://www.google.com/mail/help/contacts_export_confirm.html