Introducing Google Buzz
On Tuesday, while the east coast was buried between Snowpocalypse I and Snowpocalyse II: Electric Boogaloo, Google announced and released Buzz, laying the groundwork for the coming war.
What is Google Buzz?
Wave lite.
No, really, what is it?
Really, it’s Wave lite, Google’s gateway drug. The world’s not quite ready to comprehend Wave yet, so Google stripped out a bunch of features, leveraged their Wave-based AJAXy UI enhancements, and integrated it directly with gmail and reader.
What’s left is just the essence of social networking. The quickness of Twitter, the network of Facebook, power of blogging, and a versatility not found in any of those products.
Eh?
I told you, Wave lite. Google’s trying to make the social networking seamless. It all starts with the inbox; no matter what your social nexus is, you’ll always return to email. With Buzz, you can update and share content, follow and manage your friends, and sort through your blogs; it doesn’t matter if it’s FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube or a blog, if you are checking email you can follow and update. Google Reader for social networks.
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