I believe fizx was referring to Jaiku (twitter competitor) and Knoll (Wikipedia competitor), not Buzz. both of which failed to rick off. I think with buzz they

I believe fizx was referring to Jaiku (twitter competitor) and Knoll (Wikipedia competitor), not Buzz. both of which failed to rick off. I think with buzz they are trying to make a service which brings all the features of the various social networks to one platform, its something between Facebook (you can "like" stuff), tumblr (judging by the length of the posts and it allows comments), and twitter. I have to say that buzz is really nice, and I would use it if it didn't have the gmail requirement.