Now that the Google event is over, the company has started turning on Buzz for Gmail users. Here are some quick screenshots of it in action.
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hold on…sending messages has the same look and feel with sending emails? heeheehee….how social is that? replying to a friend’s update will feel like I am sending a work-from-home message to my boss. No.
well that’s just one way you can do it – reply by email. otherwise it’s more like a chat reply
http://twitter.com/Google_Buzz
FAN feed
Combine Google Buzz with Google Wave, and we may have a new frontier for social networking sites: http://bit.ly/google-wave-why-should-you-use-it
For now, it may looked like mediocre, but indeed there’s a room for a lot of improvement here.
Still waiting for Buzz to get “turned on” :-/
Ya-Who?
Ya-Who?
I thought they were dead
All these things are cool but…
1. Not all my friends are on gmail and they will never be. Most of them are on Facebook and email me using Facebook. It is just much simpler. All I have on my gmail is a ton of emails from Facebook and Twitter DM’s.
2. Stand alone email services are somewhat dead, unless you are using it for professional / work purposes but even that you will be using your company domain email anyway and not gmail.
3. Same point as #1. I don’t email my friends anymore. I email them using facebook. Another words, I facebook them.
4. Facebook is going to come out with their own email, which will pretty much put the final nail in the Buzz Coffin.
My 2 cents. But nice design. Just a little too late.
You do understand that you are baldly stating that the era of email is over and everyone will be using “facebook email”, right? Just making sure that’s clear…
‘Baldly’ is that like ‘Boldly’ but without the hair?
I am saying email is ’somewhat’ dead and the reason is because conversation between friends are not done through email anymore. Great percentage (my assumption) of conversation between friends are done on Facebook.
Yes, the email era has changed. That is the result of social networking. But emails are still used mostly for work / professional related stuff.
So if we start using email for social conversation, it will almost be like we are going back in time.
facebook only has a user base of 400 million… still sure email is how most people communicate
Just a question – not an attack … how old are you, Mike D?
I am 42, why?
@Mike D – fair enough … I was just interested in your age because of your comments re: gmail/Facebook. Im the same age, 42, but have completely the opposite experience to you … just interesting (to me at least).
Most of my peers are of similar age and demographic and use the web in a similar way to myself. We tend to be the more experienced group with respect to internet usage – whereas most of the frequent FaceBook users that I come in contact with are either much older or much younger than 42.
Just an observation – from an Aussie. It may be different in the US?
I ‘think’ Buzz might have more relevance for me … I wont know until I get access … but from what I have seen it appears to be more relevant to my workflow than using, say, FaceBook.
Yahoo mail is growing actually.
Yep… more and more spam accounts
i’m the complete opposite. all the friends that i chat w/ and talk to the most are all on gmail, and i chat w/ them through google chat. i rarely facebook msg people, i just email them. i’d rather share my statuses and read statuses of people i talk to the most (gchat/gmail), than from everyone i know (facebook).
@Edwin, so you dont really use facebook.
Agreed. This is gonna fail.
Man, not everyone has the same online habits as you. I have many, many friends and contacts that are on gmail but not Facebook.
You act like you only interact with two types of people – friends who you are connected to on Facebook, and work-related contacts.
What about the other 6 billion people on Earth who are not your friend and are not associated with your work? Not all of us want every fleeting acquaintance to be our friend on Facebook.
I’m the opposite … most (if not ALL) of my friends are on gmail … I don’t use FaceBook (because its a total time waster) – I don’t believe I have ever used FaceBook to send an email – and I can’t remember when I got a direct email from a friend using FaceBook.
I use gChat for messaging … as far as I can see, Google provides me with everything I need to sat in touch with the people that I need to be in touch with – and it doesn’t clutter my life with useless info or invitations to lame FaceBook crap.
Google is like TV without ads … FaceBook is like 2am TV – nothing but rubbish and you only have it ‘on’ because you’re lonely.
” I don’t use FaceBook (because its a total time waster)”
So how does the same function cease to be a timewaster when Google does it?
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Good thing is that the ads load last
But at least it’s fast enough for you to post your insightful comment.
this just happened to me when i came online and checked into this website first and everything just fucken froze. i know it wasn’t the music i was playing that was causing my computer to be unresponsive. ugh. i thought maybe the site/ad/me being impatient or something but now i know it’s from this website. ugh.
What does this mean for wave ? I am very curious to know how will google wave be used and positioned ?
Buzz.com is owned by AT&T , they are smiling today.
No, they aren’t. It is 2010, people. Give up the obsession with who owns what domain. It means nothing, no one is going to be confused. Especially anyone tech-savvy enough to know what Google Buzz is.
Call back when you’ve done even 5 minutes of tech support, dude. Ever since Google opened the gmail floodgates to the masses, the geek-savvy level declined. People will still manage to get confused.
Yeah mine’s not “on” yet either.
Just like with Wave I am wondering what i can do with Buzz !
Famous Buzz: Buzz Aldrin. Buzz Lightyear.
google needs to hurry up and buy Facebook and stop wasting time and money on Wave and Buzz. Facebook + google have what it takes to truly dominate the world for the next 30 years.
I love what they’re trying to do but Mike D has it right. Hundreds of millions of people use Facebook to communicate on a daily basis in conversational net speak.
Now, if Facebook was able to improve their email to that of Gmail and incorporate a private space to converse/collaborate they could take the site to another level of practical usefulness.
Dude, IMO Google doesn’t need to buy Facebook. Google has a bigger working ecosystem to build products like Buzz on. Will sure make my life on the Internet a lot easier and way more organised.
Facebook chat and email don’t work half the time, functionality is too limited and there doesn’t seem to be any willingness (for a very long while now) by the FB guys to improve either of the 2.
I’m sure someone once said that Google should buy MySpace already. Then, along came Facebook. Facebook will eventually go the way of MySpace, especially with a few hundred more website changes which upset and confuse many users.
YouTube (owned by Google) is a fairly popular website. As soon as Buzz is integrated into YouTube, this will just drive more and more people to use Gmail. This really isn’t about Buzz for Buzz alone… it’s Buzz for Gmail.
It’s not available on my account yet, but I’ll definitely be checking it out once it is.
This makes me wonder how their progress with Google Wave is coming along because that’s still very bugged and I think that that would be been a great tool to integrate into Twitter.
I had found one API that I was able to use inside of Wave for Twitter and it wasn’t bad at all.
I don’t know … we’ll see if Google Buzz is worth the buzz.
That’s wassup =)
This is worst than Social..ism.
mine isnt on either
Google is the new MS. Trying to copy the cool things other people come up with. Maybe both them MS should give up trying to monopolize the entire web?
*and MS, sorry
I think it’s more of Microsoft and Facebook are trying to monopolize the web, as has been done pretty much and since their platforms are not open and pretty much evil, Google’s trying to supplement the market with facebook-type functionality while maintaining a twitter-level openness. Sure there’s overlap with what Twitter does as well, but there’s more overlap with Facebook, which is really what they’re trying to combat.
i want my buzz!! where is my buzz?? wanna try it out before the fucking gfw block gmail
whiff!
ITS JUST LIKE GOOGLE WAVE!!!
Let’s say it straight from the hip: Google is bluffing. Again . Period.
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Try running a google adwords campaign to sell your lame domain (which would get hammered by Aple anyway).
Some of you need to think this out a bit. You really think Buzz will fail? Everyone said the same thing about facebook 3 years ago. Except, I have to be compelled to go to facebook, usually via email. But I go to gmail 10 times as much. Not to mention that in 2 years every 12 year old will have an android, with this service tied in. I IM on my android, because I get the alert in realtime. It will be the same with buzz. Eventually, FB may become that “other” place I have to go check. I won’t stop using gmail, I will have my account until I die. They will tie in more, they will do more, and they don’t screw up. Developing for FB has been a pain, their API goes down often, it breaks often, and they just aren’t Google. This is been in the works for sometime. Carefully planned. It’s more of a Twitter killer. The public profile with followers that is auto indexed, and can also be private with my gmail contacts. It is nothing but amazing. Now I can also see why they wanted yelp. Buzz just made location exciting too. This isn’t Yahoo people, this isn’t Twitter, or some startup live feed. This is freaking Google going social, and yes, Google usually gets it right.
@bret, “Google usually gets it right.”
you really worship google, dont you.
Absolutely agree. Google has the power to make your “social graph” interactions accurate, transparent and frictionless. It won’t happen overnight, but it *will* happen. If I were a Facebook investor, I’d be looking at my exits a bit more closely.
My Google fanboy radar just went through the roof. Googles big entries into the social internets, Orkut & OpenSocial are relative failures but lets look at some other products. Froogle & Google Checkout never caught on. There are the Google craigslist killers, Knol & Google Base, that you probably never heard of. Google has plenty of failures to go along with their successes and that is ok. If Buzz does succeed then it will be because Buzz is a good product, not because ‘Google usually gets it right.’
Buzz will do as much damage to facebook as checkout did to paypal, i.e. none
nice one – i tend to agree! most people never heard of checkout
What’s interesting is watching it roll out on the map and seeing where it’s being tried first and in what type of concentration, something that you don’t necessarily get to see when you’re outside of a company. Personally I like Bryce Watanabe’s comment in Honolulu: “I hate laundry”
Where is the video of this whole event?
Why doesn’t Google just release the full video right after the event? I mean, comon! They own Youtube, they can just upload and post that full length video from the event immediately!!
I don’t understand why Google wants to launch Google Buzz, when they are still testing out Google Wave.
I mean who wants to do social networking from inside their email inbox.
If anything, Google Buzz should be integrated inside Google Wave, unless that is Google’s eventual plan.
Google Buzz is a complete waste of time, which in the long term could damage the eventual release of the more innovative Google Wave.
Also I am a bit concerned as to why Techcrunch wants to become a Super PR Company for Google.
On Monday MA does the prep talk for Google Buzz as he tries his best to lay down the foundations for Techcrunch Users to buy into Google Buzz.
Then today you go over board with Google Buzz Mania to try and convince all Techcrunchers that Google Buzz is the best thing since sliced bread and Google Employees leave comments on here to preach the same crap as well.
If Apple’s iPad was as bad as The Phantom Menance, then Google Buzz must be Momma Dearest.
Great post. They also bash the iPhone for Google Nexus One… complete joke.
Wonder if Brands will also be able to leverage it for social marketing. It’s not clear how to do so yet.
It’s not like Facebook that has Pages.
Any insights to share about brands or products leveraging Buzz for social marketing?
Thanks
Reminds me of Facebook. The site needs a lot of members for people to use it. So it is a chicken/egg dilemma.
FAIL. Google’s products are desperate and copy-cat. Reminds me a lot of microsoft.
ORKUT=FAIL!
GOOGLE WAVE=FAIL!
BUZZ=FAIL!
GOOGLE VIDEO=FAIL (oh thats right they bought youtube to hide that failure)
i used gvid almost as much as i used youtube last year…and then something happened after they made that music deal or buying last.fm or whatever new music thing they were doing and gvid for the past couple months has just been non existent. i’ve gone back to youtubing and hulu and vimeo fulltime. kinda annoying/
italians: http://bit.ly/bT9SZP
What is so fantastic about it?
Be careful not just to love product JUST because they are from google.
I can’t stand people telling me to get a gmail account. There is nothing wrong with my yahoo account. It’s all the same. I do have a gmail account that I don’t use for anything. Why should I?
Now, I clicked “try buzz…”, but there is not buzz in my gmail. What’s the deal?