Google AdSense has gotten insanely good at understanding tone and serving up relevant ads, as exemplified here with /Film’s documentation of Peter Jackson’s horrible trials with getting The Hobbit made (seriously, watch the latest video interview with him, the man is being ripped apart while trying to keep his dream alive and his fellow citizens employed), coupled with a ‘Holocaust Tours’ ad, featuring a tour where you get to see sites and meet survivors in countries where The Hobbit may very well end up shooting exteriors.
I’ve gone to Gmail 5+ times today to check Buzz. So yeah, I think this is going to be a social network *I* use a bunch, now I guess we just wait and see what happens long-term. But when it comes down to it, and everyone has smartphones, suddenly the fact that most of my friends are already on Buzz and I can see their locations makes it far, far more useful than other location-based services.
Ultimately, I don’t think anyone’s going the be the Microsoft Office of the space. For almost everything, we all use more than one service/device, and I think Buzz just launched into being a major player in it’s space.
I’m going to gather my thoughts on this though, and write a proper article on this in a week. Having just launched less than 48 hours ago, almost any analysis on the platform is a little too knee-jerk for true perspective. I know a week isn’t a long time, but it’s enough for me to have a slightly better idea of the big picture.
While I find it difficult to quickly and effectively explain, I am super duper pumped for Google Wave. The concept boils down to one idea: “What if email was invented now, with today’s technology?” without the baggage of being a 40-year-old tech, which it is. It excites me for a huge number of uses, cheif among them film production, business, and schoolwork
Y’ALL READY FO’ DIS?!?!
above is the announcement video/in depth presentation and demo at this year’s Google developer’s conference, I/O. Enjoy/O. ha. get it?
