Google Buzz

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/google-buzz-in-gmail.html

Thoughts?

The links to the Android version aren't working. At least for me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi50KlsCBio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-kcVDNi6eg

For Gmail users not seeing this yet, myself included:

We'll be rolling out Google Buzz to everyone over the next few days; you'll see a new "Buzz" link under "Inbox" when it's on for your account.

What is this? How is this different from Wave?

what's the buzz on google buzz? i need to know

Will I be able to ignore this after a few hrs like GWave?

I think this'll take off.

Hint for Android users: get the new Maps app.

I too want to share videos with a dog in a necktie.

DO EVERYTHING ALL IN ONE PLACE, IN EACH AND EVERY POSSIBLE PLACE YOU MIGHT BE DOING ANYTHING

i like how "opening a new browser window" is characterized as a huge impediment to SHARING

Just turned on for me!

also, part of the appeal for facebook/myspace et al is that it allows me to have "friends" that I don't have to deal w/ in my email or similar personal account. I can turn off my e-mail notifications; I can ignore people. if my contacts are driven thru my gmail then all of a sudden I have to potential to be connected to 1000's of people I've dealt w/ a grand total of one (1) time in my life. those 1000's of people now clog up my tidy inbox. Thanks, Google.

Ugh.

one of the most obviously annoying things about fb is the fact photos are so small.

the annoying thing abt facebook is that they change their interface every 6 months for no reason

I guess Wave was considered a bust, since it is a sloppy mess. I'm not sure how to feel about it being directly integrated into Gmail - it's good that I'll actually know people who might use it, but that's also a negative as said above... Though I am someone who stays the hell away from Facebook and all such sites anyway.

The only reason GBuzz even exists right now is because last week Facebook announced they were going to offer full-out u✧✧✧@faceb✧✧✧.c✧✧ email addresses.

I suspect this is one of those 20% projects Google had laying around that they could activate quickly.

Don't think so: Google friends have said they've been using it internally for a while.

I think it could be huge: it's the good bits of Facebook and Twitter without all the shite, and you don't even have to sign up for it, just click through from GMail.

The downside is that it uses your GMail address, and basically puts it in public. I've been hiding mine for years, this blows that to bits. Also the problem with the 1000s of people above.

I'm not sure what I think about its privacy settings yet, either: the good thing about Facebook-when-it-was-good was the way it defaulted everything so that only your friends could see it. Now it, and this, are trying to make as much stuff public as possible, under your real name.

It's definitely not Wave, at least, which was pretty obviously pointless from the get-go.

The downside is that it uses your GMail address, and basically puts it in public. I've been hiding mine for years, this blows that to bits. Also the problem with the 1000s of people above.

(but definitely not BS to the ridiculous extent that Facebook does)

haha wait so this is like saying "congratulations, you have just friended everyone in your inbox"?

It's more subtle than that: it only adds the people you chat/email a lot. It makes it easier to add people you've already emailed than complete strangers, though.

i'm already checking text messages, email, facebook status updates, twitter, myspace blog updates and my goddamn head to make sure it's screwed on straight

SYSTEM FULL TRY AGAIN LATER

You are not alone in this feeling, Tracer. (Can you post that on Tumblr so I can reblog it and like it?)

The downside is that it uses your GMail address, and basically puts it in public. I've been hiding mine for years, this blows that to bits.

Since it's so ubiquitous I've been using my Gmail address as my public address for years now (I have another as my private address).

I suppose Gbuzz could be useful if it's extensible.

Also, there's already a slight advantage since it's not Facebook.

http://www.yellow-sub.net/IMG/jpg/41SZviEHFVL._SS500_-2.jpg

they should combine this with chatroulettte imo

oh wait FORGOT ILX IN MY LIST.

They haven't released details yet, but it looks like it's hyper-extensible: everything on it is in an open format that you can syndicate/poll/share/read. In theory you could have a thread here that was shared w/buzz so that updates there would appear here and vice versa. (There's not much point to that, but you get the idea). Total opposite of Facebook's can-we-be-Compuserve shit

somebody needs to set up a twitter account for ILX and write a script that tweets every post to every board, and feed that into buzz, which feeds back into an ILX thread OH SHIT

it's like setting your phone to divert to another phone and then setting the other phone to divert to your phone

and then calling both of them from two other phones

and then one phone randomly shows you a text from three months ago, then no texts, then a text from 10 minutes ago.

somebody needs to set up a twitter account for ILX and write a script that tweets every post to every board, and feed that into buzz, which feeds back into an ILX thread OH SHIT

No! You said crossing the streams would be BAD.

i'm already checking text messages, email, facebook status updates, twitter, myspace blog updates and my goddamn head to make sure it's screwed on straight

SYSTEM FULL TRY AGAIN LATER

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, February 9, 2010 9:06 PM (1 hour ago)

So OTM.

That's kinda why I'm hoping this takes off. If all my friends are on it, I won't need to check Flickr any more, because those updates will come into this. Same with Twitter. It's already in the same place as email.

All I have to do is make everyone use my google voice number and wait for SMS shit to show up in buzz, then I'm set for life! Bzzz

Why did you suscribe me to my landlord on buzz? Report abuse

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You automatically subscribed me to my landlord through Buzz. I can only assume that means he was automatically subscribed to me. You shouldn't do this.

what the fuck is this shit

what the fuck is this shit

lol
i just want to opt out of this, rather than find out in three months that a bunch of people i used to e-mail or go to school with have managed to friend me & are under the illusion that we're connected somehow.

down at the bottom of the page (of your inbox) there's a little link that says Turn Off Buzz
thank fuck

oh god it's so ugly

Glad I went with the "Nah, go to my inbox" option when Google offered to sign me up for Google Buzz. I just canceled my Facebook account, I just don't have time to keep up with most of the social media options out there.

this is like orkut but worse imo

Lame! I turned this awful thing off.

down at the bottom of the page (of your inbox) there's a little link that says Turn Off Buzz
thank fuck

― nsuomy (ramon cora), Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:45 PM (27 minutes ago)

YES! Thanks dude.

thanks for that.
i was just kind of worried in case my inactivity somehow coexisted with the establishment of a profile and various crosslinked ephemera appearing under my name without any input. would like to know i'm not coming up on searches &c.

buzzzzzz..

as usual none of my friends who I actually care about are either a) set up on gmail, or even b) actually use the internet ever

I want to try this, but I am extremely turned off by the fact that my real name/profile is FORCED to go public and searchable. Annoying.

^^^^^^^^^^^^ this. turned off buzz.

buzzzzzzz...

Not surprisingly, the most buzzed (ew) link is "how to turn off Buzz."

I want to try this, but I am extremely turned off by the fact that my real name/profile is FORCED to go public and searchable.
I was too, but then I remembered that Facebook's exactly the same now, so what's the diff.

Not much. I've never signed up for Facebook.

I want to try this, but I am extremely turned off by the fact that my real name/profile is FORCED to go public and searchable.

See, it says that, but it doesnt seem to enforce it. I just have "Trayce ." as mine and no photo and it seems not to mind.

I'll be disabling it soon once i've played with it tho.

Just tooling round with it with a friend - so theyve tried remaking Twitter with the Wave code, right? WTF google... WHY.

god those info videos. lame. hey you're out in the real world and finally you can tell people about it! pretty sure most of us have gotten over that particular novelty of having a cell phone. also 'real world' wtf condescending

i don't know what to think about this except that it has a stupid name and i don't want it in my email accounts.
and this 'one platform to rule them all' thing is annoying and worrisome. i like the scattered magical freedom of the internetttt may it never d|e

and this 'one platform to rule them all' thing is annoying and worrisome. i like the scattered magical freedom of the internetttt may it never d|e

me too

this 'one platform to rule them all' thing is annoying and worrisome
^^^this

lol

making minorly different social media platforms is the new make-work project and/or way to keep interns outta your hair

"can you make it so it brings me coffee? lol haha lol. no, seriously."

Trending: Worldwide

* #petpeeve
* #nowplaying
* #AwkwardSituation
* #WhatsWorseThan
* Google Buzz

is this basically just a non-ghettoised vn of friendfeed?

http://www.thedoghousediaries.com/comics/uncategorized/2010-02-12-1311722.png

google buzz password, google buzz invites

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/02/13/re-that-buzzing-in-your-ears

The Official GMail blog explains that they've changed from an auto-follow model to an auto-suggest model, so it will suggest people you may want to follow rather than sign you up automatically.

Other changes include not automatically sharing your activity on Picasa or Google Reader, and adding a big, honking off switch to your GMail settings that will actually turn Google Buzz off, not just hide it from view.

Just noticed that this not only spams your inbox but fills up your sent mail tab as well, making it far harder to find mails you've sent.

Fuck this.

You can filter that out quite easily, might even be a howto post upthread somewhere.

http://lifehacker.com/5468067/hideremove-google-buzz-updates-from-your-gmail-inbox

Doesn't get it out of sent mail, though, unless I'm doing it wrong.

burn this thing. i turned it off but still had to painstakingly remove myself from connections via google profile to every random person i've ever emailed. google is evil, basically

google lolz

riding google waves

ha, thanks for the email, g.

google buzza

buzz off go0gl3

this is so great!

so good for staying in touch!!

all my friends love it!!!

RIP Twitter

i bet facebook didnt see this coming!

i for one use this web site very rarely

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

fuckin a

anyway, rip: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/fall-sweep.html

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/google-buzz-in-gmail.html

Thoughts?

― kshighway (ksh), Tuesday, February 9, 2010 2:14 PM

;_;

has the "i miss you" youtube link gotten autoreplaced with rickroll now?

qwikster and now google buzz...we lost a lot of good ones this week

where "ones" = "things to complain about"