Buzzy Bee
February 18th 2010 07:49
Well, Google - via gmail - got itself a little into the poo this week, with its mostly unwanted introduction of Buzz.
Gmail uses woke up in the morning to find their gmail programme buzzing, and weren't sure that they wanted the pesky thing flying around all over their system...especially as it was matching up old friends (and old flames, in some cases) with unwarranted [/SIZE]
importunity.
It was a bit like eczema - not something you can easily get rid of once it's arrived.
However, Google isn't one to stand back and ignore the outcry when people think they (Google) have made a mistake. Mistakes, as many wise heads pronounce, are the way to learn. Some times they put you in a situation where you'll never learn nuttin' again, but that's an extreme sport that most of don't indulge in if we can help it.
To its credit, Google listened (which is more than I can say for Dell - my new computer is still missing, although at least I'm in contact with one particular person via email rather than getting a totally different person each time I ring - if I can get anyone at all).
I don't have all the ins and outs of what happened when, where and next, but Nicholas Carson does and has written it down succinctly on this site
in an article called, How Google Went Into "Code Red" And Saved Google Buzz.
Whether everyone wanted Google to save Buzz is another matter. Personally it hasn't bothered me much, and I can't yet see any great need for it. But give it time; I may come around, if it proves itself.
I've just had a proper look at who I was following and who was following me. Half of the people in each case were names I barely recognised, so out they went. The rest are either family or close friends. That's fine. And my blogger posts go on their automatically, so that's a plus - if anyone's actually looking!
Photo by star5112
Gmail uses woke up in the morning to find their gmail programme buzzing, and weren't sure that they wanted the pesky thing flying around all over their system...especially as it was matching up old friends (and old flames, in some cases) with unwarranted [/SIZE]
It was a bit like eczema - not something you can easily get rid of once it's arrived.
However, Google isn't one to stand back and ignore the outcry when people think they (Google) have made a mistake. Mistakes, as many wise heads pronounce, are the way to learn. Some times they put you in a situation where you'll never learn nuttin' again, but that's an extreme sport that most of don't indulge in if we can help it.
To its credit, Google listened (which is more than I can say for Dell - my new computer is still missing, although at least I'm in contact with one particular person via email rather than getting a totally different person each time I ring - if I can get anyone at all).
I don't have all the ins and outs of what happened when, where and next, but Nicholas Carson does and has written it down succinctly on this site
in an article called, How Google Went Into "Code Red" And Saved Google Buzz.
Whether everyone wanted Google to save Buzz is another matter. Personally it hasn't bothered me much, and I can't yet see any great need for it. But give it time; I may come around, if it proves itself.
I've just had a proper look at who I was following and who was following me. Half of the people in each case were names I barely recognised, so out they went. The rest are either family or close friends. That's fine. And my blogger posts go on their automatically, so that's a plus - if anyone's actually looking!
Photo by star5112
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