I just want to know if this thing is going to be like Friendfeed and do I want to do all of this stuff out my email? Also what are they going to do with Reader?
- Michelle
I swear I saw this same broadcast awhile ago... some guy named Brett, or something like that..... I think the service was called FriendFace or something?
- Joshua
I only know 10% of my Twitter friends' e-mail addresses - and vice-versa - privacy here looks poor
- Ankush Narula
oh... yeah... I think @ uses Google Profile, not email
- Ken Sheppardson
FF guys are watching this and saying HOLY CRAP! It's Friendfeed 1.5!
- Mark
Does collapsing the "bad buzz" happen automatically?
- Andrew Terry
The whole point of FF for me is that I didn't have to give out my email address
- Glenn Slaven
Sweet, Google got the @ syntax exactly right, in my opinion. Unlike twitter's approach, this method allows for a decentralized user namespace.
- Mason Lee
Big thing for me is not shoving more and more into Gmail. I want Gmail to be for e-mail, Reader to be for RSS, etc. Gmail is getting over-weight.
- Joshua
Yeah, Privacy (giving out your email address) may be an issue for many. They should have considered aliases or full names with a different look-up method.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
From an old broad's perspective, Twittter is too easy to use, people like me like the simplicity of it.Kill twitter, not so much.
- Michelle
@Mark, true, but it's a lot of throwaway code that could be reused
- Jorge Escobar
Geolocation: "I'm tweeting from the can"
- Ankush Narula
In IRC it was just to denote rank of the user
- Mark
There's my blog post title, Lag -- "FriendFeed was just killed" LOL
- Jorge Escobar
Relevancy and Ranking is not just about Social and Geo. It's about understanding that person's behavior of likes and dislikes. Google knows better than this!
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Geotagging -- dunno they are already tagging up all my photos from my phone. Sometimes you just want to talk, share, whatever without revealing your location. I'm open but ummmmm....
- Michelle
Wait, changing to "FriendFeed AND Foursquare were just killed"
- Jorge Escobar
interestingly - now we know why the tech blogs made titles with Buzz in the headline today and yesterday - was to quickly grab the SEO :)
- Allen Stern
"Yes, again, it sounds a lot like FriendFeed. But it has a critical component that FriendFeed never had prior to its acquisition by Facebook: a massive installed user base. "
- Mark
+1 Onur. In particular I'd like better reverse geo.
- Todd Hoff
I think that was the sound of Google stepping on Window Mobile's neck. Looks like Google and Apple are in an entirely new phone space.
- Matt M (inactive)
Shit, they just killed a project I was about to start to code. Local conversations.
- Jorge Escobar
@Ankush, except the scrolling isn't as fast :)
- Mason Lee
Mark: How many of those 1.5 do you think use the service daily?
- Ken Sheppardson
If they have voice updates it HAS to be better than google voice, the transcription sometimes is, hilariously not close to the audio.
- Michelle
Now we see why Facebook rushed out a larger photo size recently
- Glenn Slaven
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ - its the new BING BING BING
- Allen Stern
Ok so if Foursquare is hot and Brightkite not so much what will happen to it based on this Google location based stuff. I happen to prefer Brightkite. Ugh. This is too much. Old broad reaching for cane and sitting in chair watching the social universe go by.
- Michelle
Sounds like I'm going to have to make a rule and have these go into a folder automatically @ inbox notifications
- Tamara
@Allen: ITS JUST A WORD! BUZZ! SEE? ITS AWESOME! SAY IT! BUZZ!
- Joshua
Best thing is 300 million people automatically have Buzz Accounts in their Gmail window
- Mark
now we will get 10,000 blog posts, foursquare will take a backseat for 3 days i think, then back to foursquare pumping :)
- Allen Stern
@Tamara: Exactly, or hopefully they give the user the ability to not have them show up in their inbox
- Joshua
I can't really wait to build something on it :) It doesn't look like a FriendFeed killer. Google is more like continuing to innovate where FriendFeed left off. I liked that..
- deerstep
I think Centre Networks were the first to postulate this is a Friendfeed type service
- Mark
The main issue with Buzz? The way Google handles Social Graphs
- Jorge Escobar
Where do your folk come from i.e. followers followees friends do you rebuild or do you aggregate al your folk from other services in some way. This is just not making sense to me. Kinda like wave and kinda like mail. Are they trying to do too much in email?
- Michelle
Except that your gmail is shown in posts for anyone to see?
- Joshua
The word "Buzz" is not something I want to experience hourly.
- Mason Lee
The mobile version appears to already work for existing gmail accounts.
- Patrick Looney
Not quite having success myself... seems like it just hangs when I try to post content.
- Ankush Narula
Well, if you don't use Gmail for email, then isn't it technically "on it's own"? i.e. you'll have nothing in Gmail other than Buzz stuff.
- Ken Sheppardson
Interesting that I can now post in the mobile version using my Google Apps id. I'm guessing that it's because I have a google account and profile setup with that. Works fine with my normal gmail account too, however, I cannot get it to work on my laptop with either Chrome or Safari via the gmail interface for either account. I did get a buzz email come through though.
- Keith Bennett