Comments on: Google Buzz: Will Social + Email = Happiness? http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/02/12/is-google-buzz-a-buzzsaw-or-an-annoyance-users-will-determine-its-fate/ What's Hot & What's Cooking in Scholarly Publishing - from the Society for Scholarly Publishing Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:25:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: David Crotty http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/02/12/is-google-buzz-a-buzzsaw-or-an-annoyance-users-will-determine-its-fate/#comment-7878 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:19:43 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=8400#comment-7878 More here:
http://www.scotxblog.com/legal-tech/gmails-turn-off-buzz-still-does-not-turn-off-buzz-heres-how-to-really-do-it/

]]> By: David Crotty http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/02/12/is-google-buzz-a-buzzsaw-or-an-annoyance-users-will-determine-its-fate/#comment-7877 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:17:38 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=8400#comment-7877 How to turn off Google Buzz (short answer: you can’t, but here’s steps to minimize what it’s doing): http://www.scotxblog.com/legal-tech/lawyer-privacy-on-google-buzz/

]]> By: David Crotty http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/02/12/is-google-buzz-a-buzzsaw-or-an-annoyance-users-will-determine-its-fate/#comment-7840 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:25:00 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=8400#comment-7840 Yikes, what a nightmare. More details on getting rid of Buzz here, here and here.

I think it might be time to dump GMail altogether.

]]> By: Chris Rusbridge http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/02/12/is-google-buzz-a-buzzsaw-or-an-annoyance-users-will-determine-its-fate/#comment-7836 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:16:41 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=8400#comment-7836 David, what you have described is NOT enough to properly turn Buzz off; it merely means you don’t see that it’s still there. I can’t remember the details, but a Gmail Help search for “stop buzz” did find me several steps. These included disabling the associated services (eg picasa), blocking existing followers (yes, you’ll have some), and disabling (or altering?) your public profile. Then, apparently you can turn off Buzz.

It took me half an hour or so, and was a right pain. I don’t know how bad it would have been to have left it, but I remain deeply upset with Google for letting this happen. I want a simple email system, nothing else. So I’m on the lookout for an alternative right now!

BTW my “followers” were in neither my Inbox nor my Sent mail as far as Mac Mail were concerned, ie they came from emails that I had “deleted”…

]]> By: The Currency That You Don’t See — is You « Informationatorium http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/02/12/is-google-buzz-a-buzzsaw-or-an-annoyance-users-will-determine-its-fate/#comment-7681 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:20:02 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=8400#comment-7681 [...] Scholarly Kitchen blog, discusses the promise of and controversies surrounding Google Buzz, in Google Buzz: Will Social + Email = Happiness?: Buzz makes all your network visible to anyone visiting your profile, letting them know who you [...]

]]> By: David Crotty http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/02/12/is-google-buzz-a-buzzsaw-or-an-annoyance-users-will-determine-its-fate/#comment-7675 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:35:34 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=8400#comment-7675 The New York Times weighs in on Buzz. The phrases “fundamentally misguided” and “terrible mistake” are used.

]]> By: David Crotty http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/02/12/is-google-buzz-a-buzzsaw-or-an-annoyance-users-will-determine-its-fate/#comment-7645 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:24:31 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=8400#comment-7645 Ars Technica has a good review of Buzz, basically stating that it has potential but doesn’t yet really do anything you can’t already get elsewhere at Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed. And that’s a tough hurdle for adoption. If you want people who are interested in using those services to switch to yours, you have to offer them something that’s much, much better to overcome the inertia they’ve already built up. Buzz also assumes that everyone you want to connect with using those other services also has (or is willing to have) a GMail account.

I use GMail all the time, but I use it through Apple’s Mail program and the Mail App on my iPhone. So I never see any of the extra services that Google has tacked on (nor do I ever see any of the ads Google is selling). Like Joe above, I have great concerns regarding the privacy of my account and actually took the time to login to the web version of GMail, scroll to the bottom and turn off Buzz (as well as Chat which I’ve never used either). If you’re like me and use third party programs to access your GMail, you might want to do this as well, as all sorts of things may be happening with your account without your awareness.

]]> By: Joseph J. Esposito http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/02/12/is-google-buzz-a-buzzsaw-or-an-annoyance-users-will-determine-its-fate/#comment-7642 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:12:57 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=8400#comment-7642 I wish Google would STOP integrating new features into its products. Twitter is great. Bloglines was great, before Google put an RSS reader into its suite of services. This is exactly what Microsoft did with Windows over the years. Let a thousand flowers bloom, not just one big G.

As for Buzz itself, I tried it and then closed it. It’s smart; Google always is. But the privacy issues are too great for me to want to sort through.

]]> By: A Technology Reality Check — The Fable of the Facebook Login « The Scholarly Kitchen http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/02/12/is-google-buzz-a-buzzsaw-or-an-annoyance-users-will-determine-its-fate/#comment-7633 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:06:39 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=8400#comment-7633 [...] tend to talk a lot about new technologies here on the Scholarly Kitchen — new devices, new services, thoughts about often complex tools to create new ways to present information.  And then, [...]

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