The Zeitgeist

I’ve been thinking more over night about the whole Google Buzz fiasco, and the more I think about it, the more horrified I am.
What Google’s done in not thinking through the implications of the auto-follow defaults for Buzz will not be known for some time – but exposing everyone’s social network in this [...]

Tags: buzz, data, data mining, Google, intelligence, Privacy, Social Networking, surveillance

So, Google is going after Twitter and Facebook it seems with Buzz.   Buzz could be an interesting platform, but here are 4 key reasons why it’s probably not going to take off just yet:

Google doesn’t get user experience.
People are already invested in Twitter and Facebook
APIs Matter
Poorly Thought Out Defaults

Quantitative vs. Qualitative
Google is a data driven [...]

Tags: api, buzz, client, FaceBook, Google, Privacy, safety, Security, sns, Social Networks, twitter

Google is offering a US$30MM prize to any private group that successfully lands a probe on the lunar surface and returns high-resolution video imagery. Personally I think it would be great, anything that opens up space and helps expand our horizons is great… sadly, I think the minute that really starts to (pardon [...]