FormSpring/Buzz Update

So I’m finishing up day two of testing formspring.  Here are my first impressions:

The first thing I thought was that the set up for an account was quick.  All I needed to enter was my name, a desired username/password, email and a short bio. Took me less than five minutes to get an account.  I didn’t bother with changing the design or customizing it.

Once you get passed creating an account, then you can start answering questions. But who’s going to ask those questions? Well the one thing that sucks is that you have to advertise your page. How? Well, if you have a facebook or twitter account, then cool, you can just post an update telling people to “Ask me anything!” followed by your page URL. If you don’t have any of those, I guess there is myspace, if people still use that, or your blog. Either way, you're going to have to use something outside of formspring to get the word out. Once you have done that, then you can wait patiently as the questions start coming in, slowly but surely.

I got a little bored with Formspring on Day One, so I decided to jump into the Google Buzz pool. 

First Impression: It is exactly like twitter, but instead of having people tweeting, they are buzzing. Shouldn’t the Google Buzz symbol be a bee? I guess not, because then we would have the birds and the bees (???)

Anyway, that’s what I thought at first. Then I explored its interfaces. The thing that I like about Buzz is that there is no 140-character limit. You can also comment on other people’s posts more like you do in facebook. In addition to that, the geo-tagging feature is awesome. You get to see what the buzz is in your area if your phone is gps-enabled.

Despite all this, there is one flaw I found with Buzz. On the home page, the timeline of status updates isn’t really in chronological order. I have to scroll down to see new posts because the ones at the top are from 4 hours ago.

Well, that’s it for now. I’ll come back with more updates later.