Comments on: Google and Social: Like Nerds at the Dance

By: Please Twitter, Don’t Sell to Google or Facebook: Tech News and Analysis «

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:27:55 +0000

[...] meanwhile, desperately needs an injection of social features, as we have written a number of times, since it has completely failed to get much going in that area with ventures like Google Wave and [...]

By: Yahoo Quashes Groups Redesign in Wake of User Backlash: Tech News «

Yahoo Quashes Groups Redesign in Wake of User Backlash: Tech News « — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:01:02 +0000

[...] story here. While tech critics say giants like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft need to “get social” (and compete with Facebook), there’s real value to offering web services that are not [...]

By: LOP

LOP — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:19:50 +0000

Excellent point of view. Once i had a simple question for the Gmail team, something i do very easy in Yahoo but couldn't do it in Gmail. The team responded me: it is easy, just write this line in the search box. And i thougt, google is too geeky/nerdy. Very functional but not eye appealing (like Yahoo) or easy to use (like Apple). It seems they don't know well the difference between common people and geeks. I can write a few lines, or read instructions, but i don't want to.

By: Google Sees Games as a Weapon in Facebook Battle

Google Sees Games as a Weapon in Facebook Battle — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:04:02 +0000

[...] Google Wave have largely failed to generate much of a response. Some have argued that the company simply doesn’t understand social networking, since its other products are focused primarily on engineering-related concerns such as producing [...]

By: Pandas And Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications | Gizmodo Australia

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:49:49 +0000

[...] Does Google have the ability to launch social apps that aren’t utilitarian? Repeat after me: “A Buzz is a high-frequency Wave.” And neither pandas nor lobsters know what those are, other than wacky experiments gone awry. [...]

By: Can Google Figure Out How to Appeal to Lobsters As Well As Pandas?

Can Google Figure Out How to Appeal to Lobsters As Well As Pandas? — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:32:53 +0000

[...] as a way of helping it build a social graph. But while Google may own search and advertising, it is still a babe in the woods when it comes to understanding how human beings relate to each other outside of a specific suite of [...]

By: Google Seeks to Hire “Head of Social”

Google Seeks to Hire “Head of Social” — Tue, 11 May 2010 02:56:42 +0000

[...] however, it wasn’t clear to what extent the algorithmically driven Google understood that it had a social problem. At the Google Buzz launch, Sergey Brin lamely talked up the success of Orkut, a rare emission of [...]

By: Google Seeks to Hire “Head of Social” - A Collection of Latest Happening in Technology Field

Mon, 10 May 2010 19:49:10 +0000

By: Edelman Digital » Health Digital Check-Up: Buzzing For Health

Edelman Digital » Health Digital Check-Up: Buzzing For Health — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:38:47 +0000

[...] of the harshest critiques levied against Buzz is that it makes Google seem “like nerds at a dance”. To many, it feels like a clumsy, weak attempt by Google to enter the status-based network game. [...]

By: This Week in Review: iPad news apps emerge, plagiarism on the web, and a first for citizen journalism | Mark Coddington

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:53:26 +0000

[...] wrap-up to keep you up to speed: Buzz came out last week with a lot of problems — it was called awkward, confusing and, most commonly, an invasion of [...]