Google: Buzz Buzz. Hello World?

Twitter FTW

Buzz might be easier for sending short messages to your "non-tweeting" gmail contacts than sending normal email. Time will tell...
 
Man, Google is making a habit out of realising watered down versions of just about every popular thing out there. How about sticking to a few projects and making them awesome instead of launching half-baked product just coz they needed to keep some techies busy.
 
If we just count up, currently Google is providing email, search, instant messaging, browsing, calendaring, online productivity suites, mapping and navigation, social networking integration, a global collaborative workflow environment, a practically device-agnostic cloud-heavy operating system, and finally experimental high-capacity fiber links direct to the consumers home.
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U forgot checkout for payments ( i know we dont have it here, but it does work well!)
 
Seriously, I can only keep up with so many social networking sites and features at any one time. I'm not even going to try Google Buzz. Twitter and Facebook are plenty enough for me thank you.
 
Please explain this twitter I see no use for it... Is it just posting 140character status updates like facebook, but lots and lots?

Or is there more to it than meets the eye???
 
The google voice to text and voice search on the Nexus One runs online, so you talk, it interprets it on the server and sends the text back. It's constantly "learning" so its improving. Similarly google has G. Earth and maps, and all these other services in its "cloud". So much information from so many sources, I can just imagine the sci-fi scenario when the google server's become self aware and the ai thats doing all the learning starts doing its own thing lol. By then we should have Google Cars too :P
 
Besides Buzz, a new South African developed social networking platform is to be released.
I've chatted to Eran Eyal, co-founder of springleap.com a while ago. They're busy with a social networking platform they've been working on for a few years. As I undestand it, its a social networking platform like Ning but with crowd sourcing and ecommerce bedded into it. They've also obtained some angel investment of R4 million not to long ago, supposedly its to roll out some time this year.
 
I see no forum link on " http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Telecoms/11475.html " so thought I'd post this here.

Google claims they now have better privacy. Bah! If you have so much as touched Buzz once, you are public and are now also implicating your friends/contacts.

When not logged into google services, going to google.com/profiles greets you with a page encouraging you to create your own profile or sign in. OK so it looks like you can't access it without a google account, which is some sort of privacy, but everyone has a google account by now. Anyway, go to " http://www.google.com/profiles/piet " and suddenly you have a search box. Search for anything and you will get a bunch of public profiles. Some or most of these are just that, public profiles, which is fine. However, click a few and you will soon find someone who still has a public Buzz section visible - now you can see who their friends are and what they like to talk about. Try searching for some of your own friends... So remember, when buzzing on your friends' buzz, don't say anything you wouldn't mind shouting out in a mall.

(I know the internet as a whole is generally regarded as not providing privacy - your disgruntled ISP employee reading everyone's email etc. - but buzz gives people the illusion that they can talk privately, or at least, only friends of friends will see it.)
 
Mel_Gates said:
Aessa you are so right! I like the way John Naugton so eloquently expresses it, in Mail & Guardian ... http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-02-14-google-takes-another-step-towards-turning-into-microsoft.

How does one prevent this rot from spreading??
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Thanks for this. Right now I am googling how to remove Buzz, as the following is particularly relevant to me! WTF!! :mad:
There's no indication of what this "Buzz" is, but if you click "try" a window opens saying you're now "following" a number of people and that a number of people are "following" you. Below this comes a stream of Twitter-like postings from your followees.
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Google hides all their negative kind of actions in small links at the bottom of the page.

Firstly, just turn off Buzz from Gmail where you would turn off chat - Small link at the bottom.
Next, since you actually used Buzz (i.e. clicked on anything remotely implying interest in it), you will now have a public profile. The profile in itself is not so bad and you can set it up to benefit you, since the idea behind the public profile is that you have control of the first impression your name's search results make.
Just log on to google services (www.google.com, top right is Sign In) and go to Account Settings. From there you can find the public profile part and, if I remember correctly, you have the option of deleting it at the bottom of the page. I can't be sure now, but I think you can also configure it to just not show your Buzzes publicly - which is really what the default setting should be. You can also choose to delete all your previous Buzz posts.

Profile:http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=98083
And, the golden one, "Buzz isn't for me": http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=171460

I know this is redundant information which will show up in nearly any search on this topic, but have you ever noticed how the first page of google results on some more specific questions are all forums with "helpful" people posting only "google is your friend"?
 
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