Pawel, unfortunately I still do not get this Buzz ...

2010-02-15T20:38:19.425+01:00

Pawel, unfortunately I still do not get this Buzz thing. You say it seamlessly integrated with my Blogger... Far from that... To read your comment and reply I had to go to the source... And my Buzz is already full of my own crap (reposted Google Reader entries) I have to turn off now... No to mention the [J] key does not paddle through the entries... And to be honest I do not see value in having just another place to look for new items to read. Gmail + Facebook has been sufficient.

And on the paradigm switch - mobile devices are becoming a sort of a read/write cache to the cloud. But we will need this cache for the foreseeable future. Connectivity is great when it works asynchronously in the background. This takes care of latency issues too. When you expect it to be synchronous, the gaps and stalls and chokes will frustrate you.

If we talk about software and learning curve, well...

2010-02-15T11:16:54.897+01:00

If we talk about software and learning curve, well, Buzz isn't a good example here. My approach to Buzz was similar to yours - I don't want to learn another tool. But having said that, I've read this post in Buzz. Not in Facebook wehere I wander occassionally, not in Google Reader where there are already tons of content waiting to be read, but in Buzz which seamlessly integrated your Blogger account.

You don't need to learn Buzz. You just keep blogging and twitting and the thing will work. And that's arguably the best Buzz feature.

With hardware the move is more difficult. Still there's no chance to fully virtualize your machine and use any other device as a console only. With software you can use one app as read/write tool and the other may be read-only or write-only (e.g. Blogger-Buzz or Facebook-Buzz integration). There's no additional burden you have to handle because you don't really have to "use" the app to fill it with your user-generated content.

Now, moving this to hardware world is hard because you always expect your device will be fully functional (whatever it means in your specific case). It has to run all the applications you use frequently and store all the data you need.

This would be easily achievable with some virtual machine somewhere in the cloud but I think we're still far away from the point where we would have this kind of solution at hand. After all we need to consider a list of "what ifs" especially when it comes to poor (or lack of) connectivity.

That's by the way something I pretty much expect to read here about - paradigm switch from off-line to on-line. We expected it to happen a couple of years ago already and it didn't happen even though we use web more and more extensively.

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Pawel, unfortunately I still do not get this Buzz ...

If we talk about software and learning curve, well...