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Live Google event about Google Buzz
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- barredo 17y agoNow the event is focusing on 'noise' over social networks, and they say they managed to some how, "solve it". Update: They named it "Google Buzz", "A google aproach to sharing"
- SlyShy 17y agoIn light of your comment, I find the name very amusing. ;-)
- mortenjorck 17y agoI cannot be the only one who sees this name and thinks: 60hz.
- Lazlo_Nibble 17y agoGoogle Groundloop?
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- tomh- 17y agoThis sounds exactly like Google Wave but better.. Update: they brilliantly integrated the product into another product millions of people are already using.
- timdorr 17y agoIt's like Wave, but comprehendible.
- michael_h 17y agoAhhh, so this is why I couldn't make a 'buzz' label.
- aditya 17y agofacebook and twitter had a baby in gmail's bed.
- waterlesscloud 17y agoSo they want to duplicate what Facebook does? Great for them, I suppose, but why would I as a user go to it? Any feature they add, FB can add. And FB already has the graph I want.
- adamhowell 17y agoBefore I left I was asked to work on several Facebook app competitors using OpenSocial -- supposedly because of "executive pressure" that was, then, based on the positive buzz around Facebook apps. I was disappointed to be so directly experiencing the Silicon Valley echo chamber. But, they've been wanting to use Gmail as the center of everyone's social network for awhile. I guess this is the first step.
- araneae 17y agoWell, they already have Google profiles. This Buzz thing just sounds like extra features on top of Google profiles. In fact, I posted on Facebook yesterday about how I was sick of it and did anyone want to join me on Google profiles. No one did, and mostly people hadn't heard of it. But I definitely see the appeal of attaching everything to my e-mail address. Also, a great deal of the appeal of Facebook, for me, is as an address book. But all the people I contact are in my GMail contacts list, and it's annoying to manually enter in things like their phone number or address. Now with Google profiles I won't have to look that stuff up on Facebook, because it should be in their Google profile.
- iron_ball 17y agoMy Android phone automatically syncs contact information from Facebook, so it's not like Google isn't open to that. I understand that Google's right hand doesn't always know what the left is doing, though.
- jlees 17y agoAttaching everything to my email address would be great if I could just change my primary gmail username. I'm a bit fed up of it now. I have secondary accounts (which are painful enough to manage in the light of Buzz etc), but I don't want to lose access to 7 years of email and contacts either. The only solution I can think of is setting up a new address and a forwarder...
- RK 17y agoThey're saying something about standards compliance. Keep talking, please.
- mbrubeck 17y agoSo, you can post automatically-geotagged status updates or links from within GMail, the Google mobile web site, and the Google Maps application for Symbian/WinMo/Android. The updates can have rich text, embedded images, threaded replies - closer to FriendFeed or Facebook than Twitter. You automatically "follow" your Google Chat/GMail contacts, and you can make each post public or friends-only. You can also browse "nearby" buzz from strangers, by location. They're saying that it will have open data / open APIs, and can aggregate your data from external services like Twitter and Flickr. They mention related standards that Google is promoting like PubSubHubbub, WebFinger, and Salmon.
- adrianwaj 17y ago- now I know why they wanted to buy Yelp - the three big issues of twitter - noise, spam, and who to follow may be solved - I wonder if it overcomes the problem of FB - one way follows - you want to follow someone you've never sent an email
- jraines 17y agoThe "follow" model is the most broken of Google's social stuff. Most of the people I have sent or received email from are not people I want social updates from.
- adrianwaj 17y agointeresting - also business interactions take place over email and not worth a follow. I guess any non-business, frequent interaction email buddy could be worth a follow: but it should be opt in. Google is a fast follower now, I think. Had they planned this instead of buying Jaiku, it would've taken the DM appeal out of FB and Twitter, and slowed their growth.
- jlees 17y agoAgreed in a social context; in a business context, though, short status updates from the people I email most (and higher ups) are very very useful...
- TheBranca18 17y agoI'd rather have one place to do all this stuff in. Having Facebook, Twitter and this seems like overkill. I guess I better hope everyone finally figures out which one they prefer :)
- enomar 17y agoI'd rather have all of these things be interoperable, so I don't have to start using TheNextBigThing when everyone gets tired of Facebook. Just think if email worked like social networks; I'd have to log into hotmail to send messages to bob@hotmail.com and yahoo to send anything to sally@yahoo.com.
- boundlessdreamz 17y ago1.The permanent link to your message has your email id in it. Don't like that very much. 2. More like friendfeed than twitter with the ability to comment on statuses. 3. Seems like there is no character limitation. 4. Gmail loves adding people to contact list. I do not want to add the email ids of people I follow (outside my social circle) to my contact list. Not yet sure how it works in that case.
- adrianwaj 17y agohere's what I'd like to see: -- Buzz interdependent with Gmail, with its own domain. (like with YouTube) -- I can delete my Gmail account without losing my buzz account -- I can link 1 or more Gmail accounts, but don't have to -- interdependent reviews site eg Google Local, on its own domain, populated with Buzz content and vice versa. -- third party ecosystem around Buzz