<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>I think google is less spread thin than most large shops (Microsoft, IBM, hp, oracle, etc...) google's products are interrelated and/or deriviative of each other. Google phones are Linux based and they are a major Linux shop. They are a web based communication company with gmail, wave, talk and now buzz. Now some of them are more different than Their piers (wave to the others).</div>
<div><br></div><div>So as long they make good progress on the beta products and keep their other ones current, I think it is good. <br><br>Sent from my mobile...</div><div><br>On Feb 11, 2010, at 11:56, Marc Ferguson <<a href="mailto:marcferguson@gmail.com">marcferguson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com"><a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p>I want to see collapsable areas for my friends that indicat a new post. Cronological order puts the heavy tallers at the top.</p>
<p></p><blockquote type="cite"><div class="im">On Feb 11, 2010 9:44 AM, "Jon Reagan" <<a href="mailto:jreagan90@gmail.com" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:jreagan90@gmail.com">jreagan90@gmail.com</a></a>> wrote:<br>
<br>I've been trying it out for the past few days and it seems pretty<br>
nice... a bit like Twitter or Facebook. I think what will really<br>
determine my use of it is how many of my friends join.<br>
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Jon<br>
</font></div><p><font color="#500050"></font></p><font color="#500050"><div class="im"><br>On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Brandon Wood <<a href="mailto:woody@2143.net" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:woody@2143.net">woody@2143.net</a></a>> wrote:<br>
</div>> Anyone else trying out Goog...</font><p></p>
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<br></blockquote></div><br>I'm using it, but I'm a bit skeptical of the usefulness of it. I may not be the target audience since I'm knee-deep in most of the other popular social media platforms. Funny how all of us "social-media-heads" end up following each other so it's impossible to get away from repetitive updates.<br>
<br>I'm with Jim on the ability to collapse Waves, ah I mean Buzz.<br><br>On another note, this has me a little concerned with Google thinning it self out a bit. I think they're doing too much. They seem to be all over the place with their projects and acquiring companies and I'm not certain that's a good model (no matter how much money they can burn). They already have all our data, privacy is still a concern for some people, etc etc.<br clear="all">
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