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I guess everyone has to have one of these too :/

Is it just me or is anyone else sick of seeing the same features being developed on different platforms? Can't google and Facebook fill different spaces?

Buzz was late. Hotpot is late. Where is the innovation Google? Slept on Gmail unification. Wave was awesome but released the wrong way.

Google is starting to make the same mistakes Netscape made. They should stop trying to be another Facebook and continue doing what they do best.

I already have Facebook and Twitter. Give me a better online office app and keep kicking ass with Gmail and Search!

I'm just saying ;)

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I guess they should have never done, gmail, chrome, search, advertising, mobile OS because someone else have done it already.

As long as they are pushing things one step farther I have no problem with them entering existing or even saturated market. It pushes everyone else to innovate instead of settle for mediocrity. Chrome has done that to the whole browser ecosystem, it shaked everyone up from their sleep. They might not do it every single time, with every single product. But there is no way to know if they will change the langscape, if they don't try it.

Pavs, I totally agree with you. Gmail, Chrome, Search and iOS were late. I was all over them when they came out too.

I was all over Wave and still think they should have slowly integrated its features into Gmail.

I was excited to get my hands on those first releases but I'm just not feeling any of their new stuff.

It's not like they don't have money to burn on trying new stuff. Plus, it keeps their creative and intelligent employees interested and enthusiastic.

Part of the attraction of working at Google is being able to work on projects such as these. If they Google stuck to doing search and nothing but search, many of their more creatively minded employees would probably leave in droves.

From an interview with Dave Lifson, CEO of Postling:

"I've only been to the Valley half a dozen times, but what I've noticed is an extreme disconnect between the early adopters in the Valley and reality for the rest of the world. In the Valley, everyone seems to have a 3-second attention span: once something's "old" it's no longer interesting or valuable. The problem with that is that companies don't get built overnight; it's a long, slow journey that requires constant focus on who your real customers are and what problems they face, regardless of what TechCrunch says. Some of our users have never heard of Yelp and most have not heard of Foursquare, and it's important we constantly keep that in mind when we decide which features to prioritize."

http://techcocktail.com/launching-nyc-startup-dave-lifson-in...

GREAT point. I thought that was just with my users.

There is no reason they can't keep doing "what they do best" while augmenting their products with a social aspect, it would help discoverability and should be a valuable signal for search.

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