As Buzz Sounds More Like Crickets, Does Google Need To Be More Patient?

As we first reported late last week, Lars Rasmussen, the father of both Google Maps and Google Wave, has left Google is heading to Facebook. As we suspected, part of the reason is that Google pulled the plug on Wave barely a year into its existence. "It takes a while for something new and different to find its footing and I think Google was just not patient," he told The Sydney Morning Herald over the weekend. And that brings up another question. Google's other big social�experiment�this past year, Buzz, also hasn't taken off yet. What happens next? Like Wave, Buzz�launched with much fanfare in February of this year. But unlike Wave, Buzz was available to many users right of the box, and instead it was security issues and misunderstandings that led to its initial stumbles. The Buzz team worked quickly to smooth those out, but now the service has a much more serious issue: indifference.

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