Derrick
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Now you can do in Gmail what you do in Twitter and Facebook by sharing status updates, photos and links with all your Gmail friends. From today you will be greeted with a Buzz notification in Gmail. If you were logged in chances are you will have been rudely logged out for this change to take effect on the Gmail system. In the main window for this service you will be able to connect other social media sites like Flickr, Twitter, Picasa, Google Reader, YouTube and more to the Buzz others will be able to view in your Buzz profile inside Gmail. There you will also be able to “follow” friends (most automatically connected even if it seems to only connect those you communicate with most often) and “unfollow” them too.
People can comment on the stuff you share and you can do the same on theirs. It is a very simple but currently very sleek looking feature that adds some more value to Gmail. Still early days for the service but it would be interesting to see where it goes. Google Wave is also in the pipeline for the public at some point in the future, which will most likely incorporate all these current Gmail goodies in very interesting ways. Facebook is not currently supported in the list of connectible sites. Most are affiliated to Google though so it makes sense for the moment but they will have to open up much more to make customers completely happy.
For an interesting perspective as to why this is Microsoft’s problem, click here.
People can comment on the stuff you share and you can do the same on theirs. It is a very simple but currently very sleek looking feature that adds some more value to Gmail. Still early days for the service but it would be interesting to see where it goes. Google Wave is also in the pipeline for the public at some point in the future, which will most likely incorporate all these current Gmail goodies in very interesting ways. Facebook is not currently supported in the list of connectible sites. Most are affiliated to Google though so it makes sense for the moment but they will have to open up much more to make customers completely happy.
For an interesting perspective as to why this is Microsoft’s problem, click here.