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InkSplat
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http://www.google.com/buzz
Google Buzz seems to be Google's attack on Twitter and a potential build-up to taking on Facebook and Myspace.
It essentially creates a twitter-like connection between contacts all within your gmail inbox. Not only that, but it'll be using Google's search engine technology to filter the buzzes you see to thinks you're actually interested in--as you mute or follow certain updates it'll learn what you're interested in and attempt to tune itself to your preferences.
Right now it definitely seems like a rough beginning, as some of the bits and pieces of navigation and features are a bit odd, however, knowing Google, it is going to have the shit tweaked out of it as time goes on.
What do you guys think of it? Think its going to take off? Think its going to quickly be forgotten like Google's first attempt at social networking (orkut)?
Personally, I like the idea, but its a sort of "wait and see" for me at the moment. I'm still waiting for Wave to really come into its own. :P
Google Buzz seems to be Google's attack on Twitter and a potential build-up to taking on Facebook and Myspace.
It essentially creates a twitter-like connection between contacts all within your gmail inbox. Not only that, but it'll be using Google's search engine technology to filter the buzzes you see to thinks you're actually interested in--as you mute or follow certain updates it'll learn what you're interested in and attempt to tune itself to your preferences.
Right now it definitely seems like a rough beginning, as some of the bits and pieces of navigation and features are a bit odd, however, knowing Google, it is going to have the shit tweaked out of it as time goes on.
What do you guys think of it? Think its going to take off? Think its going to quickly be forgotten like Google's first attempt at social networking (orkut)?
Personally, I like the idea, but its a sort of "wait and see" for me at the moment. I'm still waiting for Wave to really come into its own. :P
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Supposedly you can integrate it with Twitter and Facebook as well and get notifications and comments threaded into your e-mail, rather than use the standard Facebook email notification. That sounds pretty cool.
I might give this a shot.
see what i did there
i bet no one else will come up with that
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But come on, who cares about Brazil? :P
As for the Twitter thing, you can have it go from Twitter to Buzz, but not from Buzz to Twitter. But that's supposedly going to change down the road.
Well, there is a separate inbox for Buzz stuff, at least.
This could be neat when it activates on my account, and I'd be down to try it. It makes more sense than twitter, which I like somewhat too, especially with the geo-location features.
And the sad part is that there's no alternative to it. So I'm definitely hoping Google can manage something--and I think with the Wave-based apps and such, they have a real chance to beat facebook at just about everything.
Hehee, same here. I was all about Wave for a while, had a D&D group that was about to start, chatting with Steampunkers, looking forward to everything and then, woosh. It all dried up. Hehe, I think it's Engadget who is still making a book about how Wave is amazing and will change everything, even after a lot of people have moved on.
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http://lifehacker.com/5467841/google-buzz-explained
Wave server will probably be joined with the Gmail backend somehow and mash it all together. And then it will be in beta for the next 10 years.
This makes sense. The weakness of wave, to me, is that it doesn't seamlessly integrate with everything else. When I started using gmail, none of my friends had to be using it for me to get any benefits. Not so with Wave. It would be nice if it could take in emails, let me write up all of the response, and then it would take that and send it back as an email if I wanted it to.
Edit: So, I evidently have buzz activated now. I will give it props for being integrated with gmail.
The worst part of Digg is all the Diggers. Have you read the comments lately? I'd rather know what my friends think about stuff.
The worst part of Facebook is too many friends who aren't really friends. I'd rather not hear about how cute your cat is or the 8th update of today about how your 5 year can't stop wetting himself.
My real friends have my real email and I might actually give a crap about what they think is cool. For that reason, Buzz has potential. But my friends shat on wave before they even tried it so who knows?
It's definitely the right moment to release this, considering Facebook just alienated 90% of their population with the new look, lack of simple filtering, and how much it's broken right now. I got so many errors just trying to post on Facebook that I was using Buzz it was ridiculous, and my Blackberry app is completely broken since I guess they rewrote the backend so however it pulls the news and status updates doesn't work anymore, so I can only use it to send in new status updates.
I do wish Google had gotten the Blackberry app ready before launch, as I can't use it yet but at least it's coming soon.
While I do like the individual segments of my life which are MySpace (practically dead to me now), Facebook (too many friends who aren't really friends but I knew them once 10 years ago), and e-mail, I do wish sometimes that I had a really nice, simple way to integrate everything.
never used google wave. is that any good?
Don't know that I can care about Buzz. We'll see.
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Buzz, on the other hand, I already enjoy far more than Twitter.
I was actually just wondering if you think that Google as a company has validity in the social networking arena. It looks as though they are trying to build up to a socially active network but maybe not to the degree that Facebook or Twitter provides, and maybe they are content to being the in-between in this regard. To me it seems that they are more focused on a personal friend network moreso than Facebook, then again it occurs to me that it may just be how my own Gmail is set up, as it is really only my closest friends. Do you guys think that they are trying to expand their social networks to the same degree as the major social networks?
Everybody is trying to do social networking stuff. Hell, this isn't even Google's first stab at it. Of course they are trying to expand into it more.
The certainly have the resources to use the "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" approach.
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They tried to revamp the thing now, but even Brazilians are flocking to Facebook now. I don't think Orkut has much of a future.
*I'm Brazilian.
I wish there was a way to turn it off.
Can't wait for Buzzgate, when someone accidently posts something not meant for everyone to see in a public Buzz and it slowly makes its way around the entire internet due to everyone being connected somehow.
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There is: Scroll right down to the bottom of your gmail page and click the "turn off buzz" link. It's small and well hidden but it's there
I can't believe they made it so that when they tell you about Buzz and you select "No thanks" it turns it on anyway and sets it so your contacts can see your other contacts. I know the general public seems to care jack about their privacy rights but this move is enough to make me turn in my Google Fanboy card.
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Is it any different than Twitter? Don't post shit you don't want public if you're not willing to take the extra second to make sure its set to private.
you can turn those off by filtering all mail with words "label:buzz"