Itamar Kestenbaum

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Are you serious, Google? Seriously? For real? WTF?

That said, let me calm myself down enough to articulate my WTF into structured sentences.

Yesterday I wrote a long intricate rant against Google Buzz.  It’s not because I hate Google – it’s actually quite the opposite. I was mad at Google for Google Buzz because I love Google. And I think they can do so much better. Well – since most of the 9 million posts (in 2 days!) on Buzz have been complaints about it’s features, they caught on pretty fast and are doing a wicked-good job of cleaning up the mess they made!

Dear Google,

Over the past few months, you have hyped yourself through the roof on two tools that fell not short – but dwarf-sized of the expectations. You rolled out Google Wave after months of speculation and hype – you rolled it out slowly, over a long long period of time. You rolled it out so slowly that by the time everyone had access to Google Wave, they still wanted access to it – and couldn’t understand why. You’re that good.

Forget Orkut. Okay, don’t forget it – but Google wants you to. Orkut was Google’s crack at a social network a while back, and while it’s popular in Brazil, it never took off that much here.