Didn’t really have that many but I got a Google Buzz.
UPDATE: I’m no longer buzzing. Having a social network inside of my Inbox was like having a surprise birthday party inside the batcave.
Google got e-mail right but they also got Wave wrong* so when I first heard about Google’s newest product, Google Buzz, I took it with a grain of salt (and a lime).
Buzz aggregates the online activity of your mostly recently contacted e-mail contacts (and additional recommended sources) and beams it all directly into your gMail Inbox. Buzz has the potential to be a calm serene social-media-zen-garden; an easily accessible feed of fresh content from a smaller, closer-knit network of content-creators and content-sharers.
- Twitter is at its core a vanity-driven instant message service chock-full of millions of people, all broadcasting in the hope that everyone else will tune in and listen to their message.
- Facebook is even more noisy. I know I’m not the only person who’s gotten sick & tired of having to constantly hide Farmville, Quiz or Contest giveaway application updates from their news-feed, just so its easier to get to the good shit.
Buzz attempts to bring the best features of each service together — all the vanity and vetted links & content of friends, family and colleagues — while simultaneously recommending posts and content you might like based on the content & status updates you’ve decided to share publicly.
Right now Buzz only supports content aggregation from a few social networks — Google chat status, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube.com, Google Reader & Picasa for now — but what about importing content from Tumblr? Or WordPress? Or Blogger? Or the big dog Facebook?
I really want one omniscient social media client/app to take tame the stream of my online content but Buzz needs to be able to pull in more of my the content from my Facebook & Tumblr contacts/friends or else their recommended content feature will really need to be amazing and pick up a lot of slack.
Regardless, for the time-being at least, I’m buzzing.