The Buzz on Google Buzz

Google’s latest – Google Buzz – aims to tie together all Google products into one nice, pretty, social-network-y bow. Everybody’s talking about it.

At the office, many of us once had hotmail, then Yahoo mail, and now much is Gmail. Could something similar be happening here, a migration like first we had Friendster (remember Friendster?), then Facebook, now this? Time will tell.

What the Google wizards tell – or claim – is that Buzz has five crucial pieces:

1. Auto Following
2. Rich, fast sharing (public and private)
3. Email integration (we like this – so annoying switching from Facebook to Gmail and back, plus there are the friends who contact via Facebook, others via email, the dinosaurs who refuse to join Facebook…)
4. Applying lessons learned from other social media experiments and keeping the good stuff (Google is expert at this. Remember searching on Alta Vista, then Yahoo, now Google…you see the pattern…)
5. Mobile! (More witchcraft: Buzz will know where you are, will have voice recognition, and you can say/click “nearby” to see friends nearby, and what they are saying…)

Google wants buzz to be the “poster child” for using social media in an open environment, adhering to principles of transparency. Will you use it? What do you think? Any early adopters out there? We want to hear your thoughts.

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