IMing during the announcement today:
10:22:49 AM
A—: Google Buzz
Me: ?
A—: http://www.youtube.com/feb0910googleevent
A—: I am not impressed
Me: Over half the shit Google makes doesn’t go anywhere
Me: I’ll wait until it catches on.
Me: Give me a summary of buzz, or blog it and give me the link 😉
A—: I wish I had a moment to blog it. It’s pretty sweet actually
A—: Here is a summary
Me: Oh it’s just a FriendFeed/Facebook knock off.
Me: That won’t fly. While I’m sure their filter will be way better than the others,
Google has gone down in a ball of flames for anything social network.
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Talking about something completely unrelated after lunch with P—:
“…that’s why there’s a term ‘social media douchebag’ in the first place.”
“I feel uncomfortable about talking about ‘social media,’” P— confesses.
“Why would you? It’s social media. Talking about it would be like waxing eloquent about your pencil.”
P— laughs, “That’s funny.”
“It’s just a thing you use, it’s not an end in itself.”
“You know there’s going to be a lot of social media people at South-by right?”
“That’s different, there will be a lot of people there in general. With that dilution the douchery is within acceptable limits.”
