Maetico

I think I just found the “killer feature” of google buzz, and I’m going to enjoy it.

http://twitpic.com/136dj5

Notice a couple of things from that pic.

• It was originally a tweet
• It has the conversation in one page (as opposed to twitter
• It is linking the following people an ex-coworker and good friend, a current coworker, someone from my university and someone I know from open source
• we are on topic, something specific
• I was able to reply to everyone in one blip(?) how you call them in buzz?

So how this compares to other engines?

Facebook

• it has the same conversation flow
• But due to it’s closed nature I am not broadcasting
• My personal rule of facebook is that I need to know you in person to get you
• It has this pesky “registration” where we need to agree to be “friends”.
• It lacks the real time engine

Twitter

• It lacks the conversation view, some clients have it but it’s a hack rather than a feature, for those interested you basically need to walk the tree from the bottom up essentially making it very hard to build the full tree unless you have all the leafs.
• Twitter netiquette implies you don’t spam your followers with things they don’t really care about so long conversations then to piss everyone not involved off
• You get to keep all your conversations

Email

• You don’t get the 100’s of > which makes long conversations hard to follow
• You don’t have to remember to hit reply all
• Don’t need to choose a priori who is interested in your input.

All in all I’m really enjoying this. I think It’s a keeper.