We all hear, of course, the groans as the anouncement of Google’s Buzz rolls out.
Some will whine that it’s just another annoying competitor in the world of social networking. I mean, we’ve all got facebook already, so why would we want another?
Others will shiver in fear at the increasing size of Google, worrying that it is too large a company and that it has sinister plans for world domination.
But I’m glad to that Google’s taking on the social networking scene, for a number of reasons. First, it’s competition. There’s nothing like competition for making things get better. And besides, without effective competition, facebook is pretty much in complete control of the networking market.
But beyond my economic feelings about the issue, let’s remember what makes google great: unannoyingness and relevancy. Google doesn’t constantly flash annoying images at you. Facebook does. Facebook floods us with irrelevant data and get our personal data hacked into all the time. Google made it’s mark by providing secure programs and weeding out data we don’t want.
And most important of all–openness. Google is one of the leading companies in the world for the promotion of open-source software. And th beauty of open software standards is that they allow various programs to overlap, meaning that eventually we could have a set of various interacting programs that all compete for a place in a growing web composed of people working with a decentralized set of social networking tools.
And that won’t crash as often, or be as susceptible to attack.
I like it. Hopefully we’ll soon all be outside of the closed box of facebook soon.
let’s give buzz a warm welcome
We all hear, of course, the groans as the anouncement of Google’s Buzz rolls out.
Some will whine that it’s just another annoying competitor in the world of social networking. I mean, we’ve all got facebook already, so why would we want another?
Others will shiver in fear at the increasing size of Google, worrying that it is too large a company and that it has sinister plans for world domination.
But I’m glad to that Google’s taking on the social networking scene, for a number of reasons. First, it’s competition. There’s nothing like competition for making things get better. And besides, without effective competition, facebook is pretty much in complete control of the networking market.
But beyond my economic feelings about the issue, let’s remember what makes google great: unannoyingness and relevancy. Google doesn’t constantly flash annoying images at you. Facebook does. Facebook floods us with irrelevant data and get our personal data hacked into all the time. Google made it’s mark by providing secure programs and weeding out data we don’t want.
And most important of all–openness. Google is one of the leading companies in the world for the promotion of open-source software. And th beauty of open software standards is that they allow various programs to overlap, meaning that eventually we could have a set of various interacting programs that all compete for a place in a growing web composed of people working with a decentralized set of social networking tools.
And that won’t crash as often, or be as susceptible to attack.
I like it. Hopefully we’ll soon all be outside of the closed box of facebook soon.
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