{"id":42572,"date":"2011-07-16T10:30:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T18:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=12900"},"modified":"2011-07-16T10:30:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T18:30:14","slug":"google-is-not-buzz-or-wave-reprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/16\/google-is-not-buzz-or-wave-reprised\/","title":{"rendered":"Google+ is not Buzz or Wave reprised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few weeks I&#8217;ve seen several media stories profiling the rise of Google+ by noting that hoopla also greeted Google Wave and Google Buzz before their expiration as &#8220;It&#8221; technologies. This caveat was probably more true for Google Wave, which heralded the revolution which no one seemed anxious for (&#8220;what if we designed email now?!?!?!&#8221;). Buzz was a public relations disaster from its inception. When I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/06\/google-not-wave-or-buzz\/\">first posted<\/a> on Google+ I asserted that it was <strong><em>not<\/em><\/strong> in the same category as Wave or Buzz, and that was in a <em><strong>good<\/strong><\/em> way. By that, I meant that taking Google+ for a test drive I thought I&#8217;d stick around for at least a bit. I didn&#8217;t get that sense with Wave, and proactively shut down Buzz in my Gmail account. But that&#8217;s an N of 1, me. Over the past few weeks though friends have been joining Google+, and real conversations have been starting. I&#8217;ve consciously avoided adding anyone to my Google+ circle proactively, rather I have been reciprocally adding them. I&#8217;m at 300+ now. Right now the people in my circles are much closer in profile to my <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/razibkhan\">twitter<\/a> account than my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/razibkhan99\">Facebook<\/a>. That&#8217;s probably not &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few weeks I&#8217;ve seen several media stories profiling the rise of Google+ by noting that hoopla also greeted Google Wave and Google Buzz before their expiration as &#8220;It&#8221; technologies. This caveat was probably more true for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[303,1569,1600,1390,1601,1602,234,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-google","category-google-buzz","category-google-trends","category-google-wave","category-sergey-brin","category-social-networking","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42636,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42572\/revisions\/42636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}