My Wishlist for Google Buzz
Google Buzz came out a few days ago and IMHO it has the potential to take over from the slowly dying Friendfeed. But currently it still feels a bit rough on the edges. Maybe Google could use a few tips?
Dear Google, here's my personal wishlist:
- More control over the imported websites. FriendFeed did this exactly right. Give me an easy way to add my services.
- Support more services natively. Eg. importing the RSS feed for identi.ca is not good enough, because title and description are the same in the feed - use their API instead!
- Let me import contacts. I built up a contact list on Twitter and identi.ca over the last years. Most of these people are probably on Buzz, too. Give me an easy way to follow them.
- Waste less screen space. I can see only 3 to 4 items at once! You managed to build a very effective interface for Google Reader and GMail. Please try harder on Buzz!
- Let me “like” comments. Often comments are better then the orginal post itself. Give me a way to appreciate this.
- Do not let AJAX updates mess up my scrolling. Currently when I scroll down to read older entries, new entry are automatically loaded via AJAX and inserted at the top. This messes up my scroll position and interrupts my reading.
- Synchronize the read state with Google Reader. When I read something in Buzz, mark it as read in Google Reader please. At least do this for items that were shared via Google Reader.
- Add back channels to services that support it. Push comments on Twitter items back to Twitter. Do the same for identi.ca, Facebook and whatever else there is.
- Finally solve the comment fragmentation problem by defining an API blog owners can implement to receive blog post comments from Buzz in their blog. Or maybe just implement Pingback or Trackback. I know this is a complex problem, but you're Google. If you can't solve this, who else can?
Did I miss anything? Let me know in the comments.
1I would like a way to break up the stream, a la tweetdeck or twitter lists. Or at least let me ignore certain services, Google Reader for example.
2010-02-11 20:55:29
alphakamp
2I would like to see them add the in-message translation capabilities they already have in GMail.
2010-02-11 21:09:32
Bruce J Miller
3What about pagination?. Actually it displays all the "buzzs" (read and unread) but most of them are old (or read). The unread ones should be marked on bold imho.
2010-02-12 09:38:08
4Something I really miss in GMail: an option to turn an email in a post "Share this" on my GReader.
2010-02-12 09:57:14
5Oh and I forgot the most annoying thing. For some reason Buzz repeats certain posts (from RSS feeds) over and over again. This is clearly a bug and I have no idea how this slipped through their QA.
2010-02-12 23:45:03
6Hi Andreas,
Great post. I agree Buzz needs to be improved and agree with a lot of what you have suggested. I wrote my own view on Buzz over at my blog - http://www.epiphanysolutions.c … z-off.html (and linked back to this site as an example wish list :-) ).
@alwaysmikegomez
Great post. I agree Buzz needs to be improved and agree with a lot of what you have suggested. I wrote my own view on Buzz over at my blog - http://www.epiphanysolutions.c … z-off.html (and linked back to this site as an example wish list :-) ).
@alwaysmikegomez
2010-02-22 23:13:31
Hi, I'm Andreas Gohr and splitbrain.org is my website.I'm a Web, Wiki and Open Source enthusiast living in Berlin, Germany. Enjoy your stay here.
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