Google has Jumped the Shark
Latitude - Wave - Now Buzz …. 3 Products of very limited use, that will have virtually no uptake.
Latitude - Allows my friends to see exactly where I am right now, why would anyone except for over-protective parents ever want this?
Wave - A simple web based group chat history to replace Skype group conversations and e-mail threads. Too revolutionary and too confusing to ever be taken up.
Buzz - Extending mail to allow for social networking status updates and location information.
Buzz is the real final straw for me, Google has ceased being an innovator and is desperately trying to cling to the coat-tails of other successful internet trends (i.e. Twitter / Facebook in this case). Buzz will never take off, for the simple reason that people become invested in their social networks with the time they spend on it as well as the community they build up. One might argue that Google and GMail contacts are already a community, but the are an e-mail community and not a social networking community.
Another Google product Fail has been released.