February 9, 2010 at 22:31Learn more about Google Buzz
Google Buzz is a Google variation on Facebook, Twitter, and Friendfeed, built right into Gmail, which Google showed off today. Buzz users can share photos, links and videos, comment and like other people's nanopostings.
Here are the features of Google Buzz:
1) Automatic selection of feeds of friends. Apparently, Google will try to catch who knows whom, based on information about social connections accumulated in Gmail and Google Talk.
Will something worthwhile come out of this? Google already once tried to use this data in Google Reader, and the public did not like it at all. Gmail is usually full of work contacts that no one wants to see in the friends list. It’s unlikely this time the reaction will be better, especially if the list of friends is as trashy as the Gmail address book.
2) Orientation to the publication of links, photos, videos - i.e. sharing. Google promises to download user content from Flickr, Picasa, Twitter and Google Reader, a special viewer for illustrations, and additional information will be automatically generated for links (apparently, like Facebook).
In a word, Google copied everything that it managed from Friendfeed. All this happens in the familiar Gmail interface. Google clearly believes that this is a plus. In fact, this is a terrible minus. The Gmail interface is too heavy and too anti-web compared to Friendfeed and even to Facebook.
This is especially funny because the Gmail creators wrote Friendfeed when they left Google.
3) A variety of access rights. In addition to public nanopostings, which are instantly indexed by Google, there may be postings available only to friends. Closed groups are possible, which get only by invitation.
4) Integration with the mailbox. Comments, as in the friend feed, come in real time, without manually updating the page. Nanoposting with new comments appears in the general list of letters in the Gmail inbox.
5) Automatic filtering of unnecessary. What this means is not very clear, because later during a press conference, the authors of Google Buzz hushed up the issue of combating spam.
6) For iPhone and Android will release mobile applications Google Buzz.
Question: How does Google Wave fit into the picture? He does almost the same thing, a side view. Has it already been recognized as a failure and sent to the scrap? Or does Google’s right hand, as always, know nothing about the left?
Here are the features of Google Buzz:
1) Automatic selection of feeds of friends. Apparently, Google will try to catch who knows whom, based on information about social connections accumulated in Gmail and Google Talk.
Will something worthwhile come out of this? Google already once tried to use this data in Google Reader, and the public did not like it at all. Gmail is usually full of work contacts that no one wants to see in the friends list. It’s unlikely this time the reaction will be better, especially if the list of friends is as trashy as the Gmail address book.
2) Orientation to the publication of links, photos, videos - i.e. sharing. Google promises to download user content from Flickr, Picasa, Twitter and Google Reader, a special viewer for illustrations, and additional information will be automatically generated for links (apparently, like Facebook).
In a word, Google copied everything that it managed from Friendfeed. All this happens in the familiar Gmail interface. Google clearly believes that this is a plus. In fact, this is a terrible minus. The Gmail interface is too heavy and too anti-web compared to Friendfeed and even to Facebook.
This is especially funny because the Gmail creators wrote Friendfeed when they left Google.
3) A variety of access rights. In addition to public nanopostings, which are instantly indexed by Google, there may be postings available only to friends. Closed groups are possible, which get only by invitation.
4) Integration with the mailbox. Comments, as in the friend feed, come in real time, without manually updating the page. Nanoposting with new comments appears in the general list of letters in the Gmail inbox.
5) Automatic filtering of unnecessary. What this means is not very clear, because later during a press conference, the authors of Google Buzz hushed up the issue of combating spam.
6) For iPhone and Android will release mobile applications Google Buzz.
Question: How does Google Wave fit into the picture? He does almost the same thing, a side view. Has it already been recognized as a failure and sent to the scrap? Or does Google’s right hand, as always, know nothing about the left?