http://staynalive.com/articles/2010/...g-in-facebook/
Overall, this is a great list of improvements that Buzz needs to capitalize on (besides its installed base of 146 million monthly users (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail). By highlighting its weaknesses, it also, to those looking for traffic potential, highlight the "sociability" potential of Buzz
With that said, I think the suggested PORTABILITY of existing installed friend base on Facebook would be WISHFUL THINKING. Sure it would allow for a seamless transfer of users from FB to GBuzz but that's like FB handing a gun to Google and inviting the "non-evil" company to blow its brains out. It took years of constant evolution and effort to get that massive user base, I don't think FB would piss away that competitive advantage...
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Buzz Needs the Ability to Import my Facebook Contacts
Lastly, in order to compete with Facebook, Buzz needs my Facebook friends. They?re not going to get those through my Gmail contacts. Most of my Facebook friends are not in my Gmail Contacts. The only way they?re going to gain access to my Facebook friends is via the Facebook API. It?s time for Google to suck it up, work with Facebook, and find ways of integrating my friend list from Facebook into the Google environment. We?ve waited too long for this with Google Friend Connect, and surely there?s a win-win option for both companies to allow this and work together. Win-win for them is win-win for the user.
Let?s look at Aardvark (recently purchased by Google), for instance. If you log into Aardvark with your Facebook login, it will immediately detect who in your Facebook contacts are also on Aardvark, and immediately add them as friends on Aardvark. The site, Digg.com also does this well ? all my Facebook friends are automatically added as Digg friends as they log into Digg through Facebook. There should be no problem with Buzz following Facebook?s developer terms of service and integrating this into their own environment. Facebook provides hooks into its APIs for doing this exact thing.
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