Buzz: A beta too soon

As soon as Buzz was announced — before I could try it — I tried to intuit its goals and I found profound opportunities.

Now that I've tried it, reality and opportunity a fer piece apart. It's awkward. I'd thought that I had wanted Twitter to be threaded but I was wrong; the simplest point quickly passes into an overdose of add-ons. Worse, Google didn't think through critical issues of privacy — and it only gets worse (via danah boyd). I won't go as far as Steve Rubel and some others, who...