Buzz Off?

 

I got Google Buzz today, but I must confess I wasn't quite as excited about it as I was with Wave - mostly because the latter has only pretty much disappointed me so far (e.g. I don't think anyone has logged back in since toying around with it for the first time).

What I do like about it, though:

• if anyone is ever going to be able to pull together all that mess we call the social web, it's going to be Google
• it's built into Gmail (which has hundreds of millions of users already), so its adoption rate should be quite historic - that and the fact that there's none of that "invitation" nonsense, it's just rolling out to everyone
• it's more convenient to follow shared items from Google Reader directly from within Gmail
• I like the mobile-oriented approach

And what I really don't like:

• that mobile-oriented approach has to suffer from the dreaded "everything should be browser-based" motto - I do not want a web app and I will not use it - now that Google has Android, it could seriously create one of those brilliant native apps (take Gmail or Maps for example) and would be even more decades ahead of the iPhone OS 
• (updated) I can't use the web app anyway, apparently it only works on Android 2.0+ phones
• it's still in uber-beta mode - for example, for some reason it's posting photos from my Flickr from one year ago and marking them as very recent

Despite all of the negative feedback it's gotten, though (hence the post title), I'm going to give it a shot...