Its one thing to knowingly let the world know your whereabouts via Twitter, Foursquare, and the like but it is a completely different story when your social networking application shares all your contacts with the world including stats on who you email most often.
This is exactly why I shut down Google Buzz. I might be willing to share quite a bit, but even I have limits.
Thanks to Lewis Shepard (@lewisshepherd) and Adriel Hampton (@adrielhampton) for sharing this article via Twitter.
If you haven’t already heard (and if you haven’t I assume you live under a rock) Google is going to compete with the likes of Facebook and Twitter with the soon to be released “Google Buzz”. Since Google has yet to activate “Buzz” within my Gmail account, I will save my opinions as it relates to its usability and functionality for another post.
Instead I am going to state what immediately came to my mind when I first heard the rumblings or the “Buzz” this morning…
It’s about time, Google!
Yep, I said it. So now what?
So although “Buzz” might be the best thing since sliced bread it seems awfully reactionary (as if someone at Google woke up one day and realized…uh-oh, we missed the boat on the power of social media). Call me crazy, but isn’t this the very thing most IT pundits accuse Microsoft of? Come to think of it, they seem to be somewhat late to the mobile party as well. Is being late to the party a trend for Google? I truly hope not.
My point to all this is that with the enormous growth that Google has had over the last several years I can only hope they don’t lose the innovative, entrepreneurial spirit they are famous for. Otherwise, they might be labeled (either fairly or unfairly), Microsoft-like.
Ummm… I got nothing other than LOLZ…
Devil’s Tower. This is as far west as we go my friends. Tomorrow we start the long journey home.
Prepare to swim to Sturgis!!
Just to prove my point about Miss Twinkle Toes, here is one more. Wedding post coming up next.
Not quite wedding related, but.. our baby girl is too cute not to share! We just can’t get enough of those little toes. Her toes have a mind of...
