I had a great time this last weekend working on a project with my wife for one of her classes. We took pictures of her making a box and put it together in a fun short video. I learned a lot and wish I had time to do it again because I think there are a lot of things I could have done better. Original at http://vimeo.com/10545814
The adventures of a box maker from Mike Grace on Vimeo.
Cassie Grace showing off her box making skills.
Some people have been sticking their noses up at the latest release of Google Buzz. While I agree that there are many things that need changing and improvement, I also think they might not have taken the time to actually use Google Buzz long enough to understand it’s strengths. I have found through my few days of experience that Buzz is all about conversations, and conversations is what it does best. When viewing the Buzz stream in Gmail, comments show up real time and allows for a real conversation. I have been able to have fun and quick conversations with some of my Twitter friends that wouldn’t have happened on Twitter, or at least not the same way.
I have also been impressed to see Buzz pulling my flickr photos intelligently into my buzz stream. I had 3 photos of our new front door being replaced on flickr that I posted via 3 separate tweets and all 3 got grouped together in the same buzz.
With the way Buzz facilitates conversation and does some intelligent work with managing other social network data, I really think Buzz will become a powerful player in the social networking world.
It’s the only one that keeps me laughing the entire time. ; ) Very well done.
My wife is a big fan of the work done over at Avalanche Software. She showed me their art blog that they do for fun the other day and I thought that this illustration was awesome enough to put on my desktop for at least a week or two. Maybe it will even remind me to work harder. More than anything it makes me smile and laugh. So here it is
