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Google Buzz? It's pretty cool!
Tuesday, February 09, 2010 by Dave Winer.
Okay I've had about five minutes to check it out, and I like it so far. 
It's not really like anything else, not like Twitter. One thing that's very ominous convenient is that responses to my tweets messages show up in my GMail inbox. That's very smart.
Look at the chrome of my toolbar. The only element that's more prominent than Twitter is GMail.
BTW, these items have permalinks and they're on the web. Here's my first post. And man it sure was inspired by FriendFeed.
I wish they had a fact sheet on it.
1. Apparently it has an API, but it isn't compatible with Twitter's. Microsoft wouldn't have made this mistake. How will the Twitter clients adapt. They must be cursing Google right about now (but doing it privately of course).
3. Nice user interface. At least there they don't have an agenda (that I have seen yet).
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Dave Winer, 54, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in Berkeley, California.
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