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Right, with the launch of Buzz a month ago, I just had to revisit my prediction in December last year and again affirm that by 2013 GMAIL will rival Facebook as the biggest social network online:

My original post: Can I be so bold as to make a prediction around Gmail and Social Networking?

An excerpt…

“Considering established user profiles and user information, status updates, avatars and instant messaging, all Gmail (read: Google) needs to do still is organize user profiles to better indicate relationships between profiles and consequently facilitate sharing of experiences/content between profiles.”

Yes, Buzz is still very much broken. Currently lots, and lots, of noise. A bit uncomfortable. Almost like a 1^st date.

(In fact, Techcrunch (here) said it best: "Buzz Is A Broken Instrument Capable Of Beautiful Music")

However, you have to admit – the signs are there. The foundations are being laid. The organising and inter-connectedness of Gmail profiles are starting to take shape… now it just needs to happen a bit more elegantly*.

I’m waiting with bated breath.

*At Davos in 2007, Mark Zuckerberg told a room full of high profiled delegates that the key to Facebook’s success wasn’t about creating communities, but rather taking existing communities and apply “elegant organization”.

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