William Bunce

I've had more and more thoughts about the social networking "revolution" we're currently going through, and being that I'm not a professional writer, I thought I'd jot some of them down all in one post.

Google Buzz

While reading through my "buzz" list today,  I noticed an interesting comment. It read along the lines of "trying to figure out what the correlation between Buzz, Gmail and Wave are, still haven't gotten it". This brings up a good point, but exactly IS the relationship between these? I think it may be more than we can see right now. What if Wave isn't neccessarily going to be and end-user product, but a platform of sorts for things like buzz and Gmail? It's already been announced awhile ago that the Wave team will release the Wave protocol, so third-party developers can create programs, servers, etc. based around it. We won't be just stuck with Google's Wave iteration. Buzz on the other hand seems rather - plain - especially by Google standards. This also brings up the questions, WHY is it paired so heavily with Gmail? I can certainly see the relationship between these 3 deepening in the near future.

Twitter As A  Platform

I don't think there is any question that Twitter is already a platform. I haven't visited the site in who knows how long. With TweetCaster on my phone and TweetDeck on my computers, I have absolutely no need to actually visit the Twitter site. Going along with what I said about Wave, why couldn't Twitter be a full fledged protocol/platform? It already pretty much is, so why not just let the site slowly slip into darkness as you develop more and more features that third parties are able to use with the Twitter APIs? Let the users decide which features they want to use, and they in turn can choose the corresponding program that contains their chosen features. I'm thinking of this in terms of web browsers. When you look at it that way... why not?

More soon...

Google had a huge year in 2009. From the little things, like acquiring small no name companies – many of which no one is really quite sure why – to launching and announcing new products like Google Wave, ChromeOS, removing Gmail from beta (finally), you get the picture. Most people don’t see much of a problem from this behemoth company running most of their lives.

Click to read more ...