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Winer and the majority (all?) of those commenting act as if Gmail has been this walled-off pristine email client. WRONG. There is chat, RSS feeds, SMS, Calendar, Docs, Location and iGoogle gadgets, etc all bundled up in Gmail if you want them. It has never been just about email and might as well absorb status updates and Wave-isms. These people sound just like users complaining about every little change with Facebook.

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How many use those features? So there's an indication of how many will use Buzz.

All I'm saying is that I can't understand how anyone who uses Twitter regularly can claim to be bored with Buzz in an intellectually honest way.

It's the same criticism people have had with wave really "I log in, nothing much is happening, it's boring" Wouldn't facebook be pretty much the same if all your friends weren't posting?

Fair enough, but considering Buzz has only rolled out to a small portion of gmail users, it's a premature in the extreme (hence "intellectually dishonest") to claim to be bored with it.

What indication? Are usage metrics on those features public knowledge or something?

I have no idea... do you?

I use google-talk within gmail on a regular basis. All of our documents are in google docs. My calendar (both social and work) is a google calendar.

While I'm not terribly interested in buzz, I'm not about to write it off simply because I'm not interested.

The articles assertion that it's doomed by its API is just ludicrous. Twitters API is rather simple and plugging in yet another social network API hardly seems like a big project at this point. They're all pretty well abstracted out at this point.

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