Early this morning, Google added a new social feature by the name Google Buzz. Most of you must have noticed it already when you logged into Gmail. Google suggests that it will help us organize our social information and remain connected. Here is the snapshot of the screen which you might already have seen or will be greeted with when you login to Gmail. Hit the read link for more details.
Unlike Google Wave, released last year, this one is built right into Gmail so making it very accessible in the first place. Secondly, just like any Google product all your contacts are already in your network. As you may notice in the following screen shot your most contacted friends will automatically be added to the list of people you’ll follow.
So what exactly does Buzz do?
Buzz helps you share photos, videos and links publicly or privately with your friends and also helps you stay updated with the same thing that your friends do. As of now, you can integrate your Flickr and Twitter account into Buzz. And Google does admit the efficiency of those already existing services and calls Buzz an open platform allowing all developers and social tools to participate. Now what I really like about the Buzz thread, personally, is the inline support for media. You can play the shared videos without leaving the page or flip through pictures from a shared link and even view a slide show of someone’s Picasa album. Now that will maybe mark the end of leaving Twitter homepage to view stuff. Also, there’s no character limit on your Buzz, though that’s not a big issue given the world’s comfort level with Twitter today.
Here is a preview of the interface inside Buzz once you set it up. For instance I have my Google Talk status messages set to private and the Tweets to public.
Head over to buzz.google.com for more details, specially if you haven’t been invited yet because Google has just begun rolling out this service so it might be a while before everyone gets it. For the lucky ones start Buzzing and let us know how you like it and if you see yourself using it in the future or let it pass like Google Wave.
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seems that the 20th century is gonna be the yr of Social Networking and Social Media …. From Hi5 to Orkut to facebook to twitter and now buzz…
Good to see so many developments happening in such a small time
very true Karan. stayin in touch is lot easier now.
Whether it is like yahoo Buzz. ???
hearing a lot about it….will have to try it very soon
sure let us know how you feel abt it..
seem like a promising update from Google and it may shine more than Google Wave. I will have to try it myself ! Thank you for this info, and keep up the good work as always…
yeah the best advantage over wave is the integration with gmail. the alerts appear in the inbox and we can act upon them right away.
I just finished reading about Google Buzz over at Tech Patio, seeing another post here just cements the fact that I need to get over to my Google account and see whats going on.
Hey John, was looking foward to hearing your take on this. get back to us soon.
I think buzz will hit twitter growth…
didnt get buzz on my gmail..
don’t worry, it’s being rolled out slowly to all users worldwide.
I think social media will kill SEO. Even SEO firm also going to prefer to SMO than SEO.
well seo does have some advantages so SMO has some catching up to do for now.