Are You Buzzed?
February 9, 2010
By: Michael Price
Author's Website: http://www.zillow.com
Google takes a run at Facebook today by releasing their new platform boringly titled “Buzz” with an equally uncreative logo (the conversation bubble is so 2009). Not that it really matters. Google could announce they changed the brand of TP in the executive wash rooms and people would take notice. Google is hedging a bet that you will use the GMail tab for Buzz as your social media aggregation tool of choice. You’ll be able to bring in all of your Google related content, images from Flickr etc., however, it won’t pull in your Facebook updates.
Buzz is available on Android based handsets and as a web application on the iPhone. So are you buzzed about Google’s new social tool?
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harrystyris on February 10, 2010 8:45 pm
When such things are introduced and released initially we have to be very much careful to be again get giezmofreak for this type of releases ans get habituated to those items.I was really fed up with being bombarded with advertising. It seems these days there is no escape and one has to wonder what effects this constant “noise” has on the mind,and our politics. Richard Sennett in the Culture of the New Capitalism talks about the “gold plating” of candidates who are marketed to the public. Building on surface differences allows people like Sarah Palin to gain tremendous media exposure for all the wrong reasons and adds to the polarization which is currently paralyzing effective government in the USA.
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annejaa on March 3, 2010 11:45 pm
Yes.Before two weeks when i opened my Gmail inbox i found Buzz enabled with all the contacts of my account and i as well as my friends we both can see updates of each other.I think the concept is similar to that of Facebook.
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