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		<outline created="Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:21:03 GMT" text="What's wrong with Google Buzz">
			<outline created="Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:21:10 GMT" text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2010/02/10/coke2.jpg&quot; width=&quot;150&quot; height=&quot;292&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named coke2.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I only know about first impressions of Google Buzz because once I saw what it did to my Gmail inbox, which is a mission-critical app for me, my mission became &lt;i&gt;How do I turn this off?&lt;/i&gt;"></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:27:22 GMT" text="This came after I &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/stories/2010/02/09/googleBuzzPfffft.html&quot;&gt;learned&lt;/a&gt; that it made no attempt whatsoever to be Twitter API-compatible. "></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:21:56 GMT" text="It violates the prime directive of new software. It starts turned on, and the way to turn it off is all-but invisible. And it invades a space that heretofore Google helped to &lt;i&gt;protect&lt;/i&gt;. One of the big values of Gmail is its spam filter. Now all of a sudden it's as if the exhaust was reversed, and it was spraying dirt &lt;i&gt;into&lt;/i&gt; my message stream, instead of filtering it out."></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:40:14 GMT" text="New software should be easy to try out, and there should be no penalty for doing so. Here, they didn't even give us an option, I was automatically signed up, and the way out was hidden. The first bit, which is fun -- create a new post -- is followed by a flood of new messages in a semi-sacred &lt;i&gt;private&lt;/i&gt; place, my email inbox."></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:23:18 GMT" text="Bottom-line: There's no good reason why Buzz (terrible name, btw) should be integrated with Gmail. The company showed the worst judgment. It took what was the industry leading web mail product and turned it into a lab experiment. Once I turned it off (it's not hard, there's a switch at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2010/02/09/turnoff.gif&quot;&gt;bottom&lt;/a&gt; of the Gmail home page), Gmail went back to being Gmail, and not a nightmarish ad for Google's software design ineptness."></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:23:41 GMT" text="After all that, Kevin Rose's &lt;a href=&quot;http://kevinrose.com/post/380902050/google-buzz&quot;&gt;analysis&lt;/a&gt; is right on. He calls them feature requests -- clever -- but his concerns are so basic, it's another way of saying this should have been labeled pre-pre-beta and should have been opt-opt-opt-in with disclaimers and confirmation on confirmantion, instead of turned on by default for all Gmail users. "></outline>
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