{"id":466,"date":"2010-02-09T19:06:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T00:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saoudrana.com\/?p=466"},"modified":"2010-02-09T19:07:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T00:07:28","slug":"google-buzz-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/google-buzz-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Buzz Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google today announced a new service, <a href=\"http:\/\/buzz.google.com\/\">Google  Buzz<\/a>, that automatically brings social networking into Gmail and  the rest of the Google-sphere. Whether or not you&#8217;re big on social  networking sites like Twitter or Facebook, Buzz offers a somewhat new  and intriguing approach.<\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s Buzz All About?<\/h3>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yi50KlsCBio&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yi50KlsCBio&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Buzz&#8217;s five key features, as laid out in the event at Google HQ today,  include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Automatic friends lists (friends are added automatically who you  have emailed on Gmail)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Rich fast sharing&#8221; combines sources like Picasa and Twitter into a  single feed, and it includes full-sized photo browsing<\/li>\n<li>Public and private sharing (swap between family and friends)<\/li>\n<li>Inbox integration (instead of emailing you with updates, like  Facebook might, Buzz features emails that update dynamically with all  Buzz thread content)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Recommended Buzz&#8221; puts friend-of-friend content into your stream,  even if you&#8217;re not acquainted. Recommendations learn over time with your  feedback.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Buzz lets you share photos, video, links to web sites, and other  content from all over the web with your closest contacts or with the  public at large.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/saoudrana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/post-to-buzz.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-467\" title=\"post-to-buzz\" src=\"http:\/\/saoudrana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/post-to-buzz.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/post-to-buzz.png 731w, https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/post-to-buzz-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It feels a whole lot like Facebook&#8217;s newsfeed\u2014or even more like  FriendFeed, though fewer people ever got to know FriendFeed all that  well\u2014but it lives inside Gmail and integrates automatically with your  most frequent Gmail contacts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/saoudrana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/01_buzz-auatomatically_connects-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-468\" title=\"01_buzz-auatomatically_connects-1\" src=\"http:\/\/saoudrana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/01_buzz-auatomatically_connects-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/01_buzz-auatomatically_connects-1.png 778w, https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/01_buzz-auatomatically_connects-1-300x145.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apart from working directly inside Gmail, it can pull content from  Twitter, from Flickr, and from various other popular social sites from  across the web. Currently social services supported include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flickr<\/li>\n<li>Twitter<\/li>\n<li>Picase Web<\/li>\n<li>YouTube<\/li>\n<li>Blogger<\/li>\n<li>Any feed connected to your Google profile (like your blog)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When you publicly post something via Buzz, it automatically and  instantaneously adds the post to your Google Profile page (which it  creates for you if you haven&#8217;t already created one). If you want to post  privately, you can create and choose specific groups you want to share  with\u2014in what looks like an attempt to offer both the public aspects of  Twitter and with the private aspects of Facebook.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/saoudrana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/02_automatically_creates_google_profiles_page_if_you_don_t_have_one.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-469\" title=\"02_automatically_creates_google_profiles_page_if_you_don_t_have_one\" src=\"http:\/\/saoudrana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/02_automatically_creates_google_profiles_page_if_you_don_t_have_one.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/02_automatically_creates_google_profiles_page_if_you_don_t_have_one.png 525w, https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/02_automatically_creates_google_profiles_page_if_you_don_t_have_one-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Buzz is (or will soon be) available as a new sidebar link in Gmail,  but it also integrates with your Gmail inbox. If you&#8217;re worried about  email overload, here&#8217;s the skinny\u2014Buzz items end up in your inbox in a  three ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Someone comments on your stuff<\/li>\n<li>You comment on something and other people continue the conversation.<\/li>\n<li>Someone @&#8217;s you, Twitter style.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Buzz also suggests a Recommended Buzz, pulling content from users you  aren&#8217;t following using an algorithm based on what your friends like or  are following. The idea is that they&#8217;ll bring you the &#8220;good buzz&#8221; even  if you&#8217;re not friends with who&#8217;s delivering it. If you don&#8217;t agree with  the recommended &#8220;good buzz&#8221;, you can tell Google so and it&#8217;ll tweak its  algorithm, so hopefully it&#8217;ll more closely match what you like next  time.<\/p>\n<p>When your friends post content that&#8217;s not all that exciting (&#8220;ate a  bagel for breakfast&#8221;), Buzz will attempt to identify it and  automatically &#8220;collapse the bad buzz.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Buzz on Your Mobile  Device<\/h3>\n<p>Google is also launching three different mobile products that  integrate with Buzz.<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/m-kcVDNi6eg&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/m-kcVDNi6eg&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>First, they&#8217;ve integrated Buzz into the Google.com mobile homepage.  The new homepage has small UI tweaks, but the big change is that the  Buzz icon now appears in the upper right corner of the screen. Click on  it and you can post to Buzz, but more importantly, when you click there,  Buzz will find your location and turn it into a real place\u2014not just an  address, but an actual, meaningful place. (When demoing, Buzz asked the  user &#8220;Are you at Google?&#8221;) In normal use, it&#8217;ll try placing you at  wherever it thinks you are, whether it&#8217;s a business, your home, a  restaurant, or wherever.<\/p>\n<p>A mobile Buzz webapp for Android and iPhone (available at <a href=\"http:\/\/buzz.google.com\/\">buzz.google.com<\/a>, screenshotted below)  gives the user mobile-friendly version of Buzz, providing a stream of  people you&#8217;re following. You can also grab nearby buzz to see what  people around you are saying (say you&#8217;re at a concert and want to hear  what people are saying about it).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/saoudrana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/buzz-iphone-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-470\" title=\"buzz-iphone-1\" src=\"http:\/\/saoudrana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/buzz-iphone-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/buzz-iphone-1.png 640w, https:\/\/saoudrana.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/buzz-iphone-1-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, Google Mobile Maps has added a new Buzz layer, which allows  you to post to Buzz quickly from Google Maps. (We&#8217;re doubting this will  work on the iPhone soon because it would require Apple to update Google  Maps, which normally only does on OS updates, but it will likely be  pushed out to other devices soon.) Like the webapp, you can post from  the Maps app, it&#8217;ll grab your location and snap you to a real place  rather than just an address.<\/p>\n<p>Google says they want Buzz to be the poster child for what it means  to make a social tool that plays nice\u2014one that has an open API, that  respects the user&#8217;s privacy decisions, and that doesn&#8217;t lock up your  data. (As opposed to some other popular social networks.)<\/p>\n<h3>Google Buzz in the  Business<\/h3>\n<p>Last, Google explained that they&#8217;ll eventually be adding Buzz to  Google Apps accounts so business can use them internally, something that  Google thinks will be a very important use in time.<\/p>\n<p>Google Buzz will begin rolling out at 11am PST, and will continue  slowly rolling out to users over the course of the next couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>Interested? Let&#8217;s hear what you think in the comments.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/buzz.google.com\/\">Google Buzz<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gmailblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/google-buzz-in-gmail.html\">Google  Buzz in Gmail<\/a> [Official Gmail Blog]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/introducing-google-buzz.html\">Introducing  Google Buzz<\/a> [Official Google Blog]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/googlemobile.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/introducing-google-buzz-for-mobile-see.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OfficialGoogleMobileBlog+%28Official+Google+Mobile+Blog%29&amp;utm_content=FeedBurner\">Introducing  Google Buzz for mobile: See buzz around you and tag posts with your  location.<\/a> [Google Mobile Blog]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/googlereader.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/readers-get-your-buzz-on.html\">Readers:  Get your Buzz on<\/a> [Google Reader Blog]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google today announced a new service, Google Buzz, that automatically brings social networking into Gmail and the rest of the Google-sphere. Whether or not you&#8217;re big on social networking sites like Twitter or Facebook, Buzz offers a somewhat new and intriguing approach. 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