Google Buzz: Generating Word of Mouth
Google launched its new social media experiment: Google Buzz, a new service that is tied to your browser, Gmail allows users to share links, photos, videos and status updates that are shown up along-side your e-mails. Have you tried it yet? Check it out!
The company aims to battle with other powerful real-time platforms such as Facebook´s News Feed, FriendFeed and Twitter.
How does it work?
- Since it is right in your Gmail account, you won’t need to set up anything. This means that you will automatically follow people you frequently email and chat with. Once and for all, you will not have to import your contacts or friends.
- You can choose if you want your posts to be public or private. It’s important to know that the default is public. Still, you can also send posts directly to a friend using a variation on Twitter’s @ reply syntax, like this: @name@gmail.com.
- You can connect Google Buzz to other sites you usually use such as Picasa, Flickr, Google Reader and Twitter. So, you will be able to keep up with everything your friends have been doing around the Web-all in one place.
- It offers big and full resolution photos. Moreover, you will be able to play videos online, so you can watch them without the need of opening a new window.
- Post can be geotagged. So, Buzz will be able to show recent post around the user’s current location.
Watch this instructive video for further information!
How did Google’s arch enemies react?
Apparently, they are not happy at all!
Yahoo’s authorities claim that the company launched Yahoo! Updates one year and a half ago. They argue that this tool is very similar to Google Buzz since it’s a social feature that lets people share their status, content and online activities. It’s a tool that keeps them informed on what their friends and family are doing on Yahoo! and across the Web.
On the other hand, Microsoft considers that Google’s product is both late an unnecessary. Busy people don’t want another social network, what they want is the convenience of aggregation.
Facebook didn’t have much to say about it: Generally, we’re supportive of technologies that help make the Web more social and the world more open and are interested to see how Google Buzz progresses over time”.
In a nutshell, we will have to wait and see Google’s Buzz performance. Still, we know one thing for sure: social media will keep on growing and expanding its horizons!
Sources:
Hands on with Google Buzz – It’s a Stream in Your Inbox
Google Gets More Social With Buzz
Microsoft, Yahoo Diss Google’s Buzz
Using google buzz might display your private conversations on the search results.
Make sure to change the setting.
Good luck getting people behind this one. Though you make some VERY fascinating points, you’re going to have to do more than bring up a few things that may be different than what we’ve already heard. What are trying to say here? What do you want us to think? It seems like you cant really get behind a unique thought. Anyway, that’s just my opinion.
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