2009 – 2011retired
Google Squared
“It turned the whole web into a tidy spreadsheet — order out of chaos, gone too soon”
“Killed to make room for Google+, which didn't outlive it by much either”
Google Buzz was a social networking, microblogging and messaging tool woven directly into Gmail, letting users share links, photos, videos, status messages and comments as conversations right in their inbox. It integrated with Picasa, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, Blogger, Google Reader and more, and let users choose each time whether to post publicly or privately to friends. Analysts saw it as Google's attempt to take o
On October 14, 2011, Google announced Buzz would be discontinued, with existing content made read-only, and the service shut down on December 15, 2011. It was superseded by Google+, which was later discontinued on April 2, 2019 — so Buzz's replacement has now joined it in the great discontinued beyond.
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“It turned the whole web into a tidy spreadsheet — order out of chaos, gone too soon”
“The first phone we stroked instead of pressed — it never stood a chance of being the last.”
“It put the future in our pockets, then got pocketed itself.”