Google ‘Buzz’ – is it really ‘all that’?
February 9, 2010 in General by WelshPixie
The left-side column is an image taken directly from the Google Buzz front page (google.com/buzz). The right-side column represents the comparative efx3 features.
Well, you DO have to sign up if you’re not already a gmail user.
What else do we have?
Customer support. Every single member of efx3 can contact me or Rusty and receive a reply the same day, if not the same hour. Dr Dog sent me a message this morning asking for some theme tweaks and I did them for him as soon as I got the message. If I see a bug report from any of you, I respond as soon as I can and we fix it as soon as we can, unless it’s something we have to rely on an outside source for. Where else can you expect to receive this level of personal service?
Community interaction – if you want something, we do our best to implement it. We listen to what you want, not that many of you have requested much and seem to be quite happy with what we provide.
Here are some more things we don’t have:
We don’t claim to own your content. Anything you post to Google wave or any other Google service becomes property of Google.
We don’t take your private data and make it accessible to third-party spammers, malware and general ne’er-do-gooders. See Facebook. (Don’t believe me? – http://theharmonyguy.com/ – read the Facebook posts.)
We don’t use viral marketing – our budget is pretty meagre and relies on word of mouth to get new members ;)
We don’t have a big brand name like Google that inspires people to sign up to absolutely anything they put out ‘just because it’s Google’.
Is Google Buzz something new and fancy? No, of course not. Social networking exists in many iterations across the web and it’s whoever has the biggest voice that’ll come out on top. So before you go signing up to ‘the next big craze’, give a thought to what it’s offering you that your friendly neighbourhood efx3 doesn’t have.

