Will Google Buzz crash like Google Wave?

Gene Expression
By Razib Khan
Feb 11, 2010 11:52 AMNov 5, 2019 9:44 AM

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What do you think? I think the probability is lower that it will flop like Wave in terms of widespread use because I can recognize what the application is trying to do. It seems to be pushing into a recognizable niche of social content aggregation and organization, though since it hooks into stuff you already use like Gmail it's got a definite advantage out of the gates. The only major caution is that a lot of the comments I'm seeing in Buzz are like the initial ones in Wave. "So, what do we do with this?" "Hey everyone!" "I'm here...."

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