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Buzz.. It’s a Social Networking Smörgåsbord

Feb 10, 2010 / Social Media / Trackback

I was happy this morn­ing when I got a Face­book mes­sage that my chat could now be inte­grated with my IM client Pid­gin. Thank you, that is very nice because I love inte­gra­tion, effi­ciency, sim­plic­ity and ease. But then I mean­dered over to Gmail on line (which I nor­mally don’t because I have it con­fig­ured in Out­look) and I saw the curi­ous lit­tle 4 color speech bub­ble.. I just had to click on it and open up Pandora’s Box.

OK, I think I like it a lot. But how many places can one be logged on and use to communicate?

So, I’m here cozy by the fire­place with my lap­top try­ing to fig­ure out what to use. I’m a lit­tle con­fused where I should update sta­tuses and share links from. I could do it from any of the appli­ca­tions I use… how does one choose???????????

I demand lifestream­ing. I want one provider who gives me every­thing. I don’t want to have a gazil­lion sep­a­rate logins with user­names and pass­words and a bunch of clients and web­sites going at the same time. I think the addi­tion of Buzz to the Google line of prod­ucts is prob­a­bly way bet­ter than Face­book and Twit­ter and I think I might even­tu­ally pre­fer to just use it and give them up.

But alas, as far as I can see I’ll never be able to do that because not all of my con­tacts, friends and even my own brother use Gmail. Face­book and Twit­ter have that one thing in com­mon sav­ing both of them. How do I get every­one in the same place?

I want inte­gra­tion and I want it now!

P.S. I think Wave was a decoy, a crude attempt to not give a way the baby with the bath water dur­ing a trial to get feed­back about what peo­ple do not like and what doesn’t work. Buzz is the real roll out. Those Google peo­ple are slick. If I were ever to get a tat­too it might be the Google logo. Just sayin.……


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  • shen­nee

    Karla– Inte­gra­tion is Key to sim­pli­fy­ing one’s life. It get’s very over­whelm­ing to have a user­name and pass­word for every place you net­work and com­mu­ni­cate. I per­son­ally would appre­ci­ate an eas­ier method.
    BTW.. I do not care for google wave either. What a let down Just sayin„„„„,
    Shen­nee

    • http://karlaporter.com/ Karla Porter

      Well Shen­nee, you could start by switch­ing to Gmail =)

  • Joan Gins­berg

    I agree with you about get­ting every­one on the same page. My Face­book friends, many of whom have a dif­fi­cult time manip­u­lat­ing it, are NEVER going to inte­grate any­thing. Do I aban­don them?

    Wave was a red her­ring. And a great gimmick.

    • http://karlaporter.com/ Karla Porter

      Oh Joan what a riot, “try­ing to get every­one on the same page”.…. it’s kind of like work­ing in cor­po­rate HR, isn’t it?

  • http://www.twitter.com/alexblom AlexBlom

    If you want true lifestream­ing Friend­feed is still your best bet. I’m not active on the ser­vice but it col­lects info from just about every­where and non mem­bers can see your activity.

    • http://karlaporter.com/ Karla Porter

      Thanks Alex, The rea­son I don’t use ser­vices like Friend­feed and is pre­cisely what you men­tioned it “col­lects”. I like the fact that my ongo­ing or instant con­ver­sa­tions, microblog­ging and sta­tus updates are via the same appli­ca­tion to use as I wish not a bunch of dif­fer­ent ones aggre­gated. I don’t care about viewer pur­poses I want a good user tool.


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