Howdy y'all,
How is everyone doing? It's Valentine's Day, the Daytona 500 and a day to begin blogging about Buzz. What is it? What's the buzz about Google Buzz? Google Buzz is something that Google unleashed on February 9th, as part of gmail that allows you to share your thoughts, multimedia, photos, updates, whatever within your social media feeds by way of your gmail. You can share your thoughts both publicly or privately, you decide. So essentially, your network is your address book (initially).
Google buzz is pretty much already set up for you if you have and use Gmail. If you have gmail friends, then you automatically have a Buzz follower. The buzz about Buzz is that it will pull images from links, play videos and let you scroll through pictures. Since it's a Google product, it's already hardwired to work instantly with Picasa, Google Reader, and yes, even Twitter.
If you post something in Buzz, you will get replies back in your In-box. As you reply and recommend things to your little community of friends or group, you will also see their recommendations. So, will Google Buzz gain traction with the "early adopters" of technology? Only time will tell, but Google seems to be gaining some serious traction. You have an immediate social network of followers via your gmail account the habitual habit of checking your email throughout the day. So what's left to learn? Oh, it works on your phone too! So what are you waiting for? Go get Buzzed!
If you would like to see some stagering numbers as to Buzz and it's game changing uniqueness, go no further than:
http://mashable.com/2010/02/14/google-buzz-column/
or watch a video about Buzz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi50KlsCBio
Chuck, I had to hunt a little to find the comment section. If you keep your respondents narrowed to the techically proficient (!ha)that's fine, but if you were using this for an undergrad class or a less technically aware audience (older patients in a clinic, customers for a small hotel, etc), this might be too obscure. For me personally, love the presentation and content.
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