I want to start by emphatically stating that I am not some Google fanboy! I don’t ogle over everything released from Google! I really couldn’t care less about Google Buzz, except that I think it will draw the “social media” junkies away from Google Wave and they can start to seriously market Google Wave as a real-time business collaboration tool.
But, let’s start with what Google Buzz is and what it allows you to do:
- No setup needed
Automatically follow the people you email and chat with the most in Gmail.
- Share publicly or privately
Publish your ideas to the world or just to your closest friends.
- Inbox integration
Comments get sent right to your inbox so it’s easy to keep the conversation going.
- Photo friendly
See thumbnails with each post, and browse full-screen photos from popular sites.
- Connect sites you already use
Import your stuff from Twitter, Picasa, Flickr, and Google Reader.
- See updates in real time
New posts and comments pop in as they happen. No refresh required.
- Just the good stuff
Buzz recommends interesting posts and weeds out ones you’re likely to skip.
Also, they provided a video showing Buzz in action:
Ok, so Bravo! I think! I am not a big “Social Media” junkie. Not sure I need everything linked together like that or not. I will certainly give it a go, but I tend not to get to excited about this kind of stuff. Might find it useful, might not. I still don’t use Facebook..and won’t. Whatever that means or tells you about me.
Regardless, the real meaning of this post is that I think this will be a very, very good thing for Google Wave. Instead of comparing Google Wave to all the other social media stuff out there and whether it will replace Twitter or replace Facebook, folks can concentrate on defining Google Wave for what it is and what it does.
Google Wave, as I have said time and time again is the best real-time business collaboration tool available. Although, Novell’s Pulse and IBM’s Project Vulcan are going to battle for that marketplace share also. I expect and hope that at Google I/O 10 the Google Wave team will roll out Google App integration and start to spin this whole project as the must have Business collaboration tool.
They need a great “Steve Jobs-esque” type presentation – Here is your great problem…and here is your magical, mystical, futuristic solution that you will now never be able to live without.
They need a great “Steve Jobs-esque” type presentation – Here is your great problem…and here is your magical, mystical, futuristic solution that you will now never be able to live without. Because,…Google Wave could be that tool and live up to the hype….as they continue adding and tweaking functionality in the preview version and get ready for Alpha and Beta releases.
Google Buzz can deal with all the “buzz” that you get with the social media crowd. Google Wave can concentrate on the “I’m a big boy now” serious business crowd and offer them a serious business Web 2.0 product. I am also very curious as to how much Google Wave type technology might be present in Google Buzz. Moreover, if Google Buzz was conscious decision to try and deflect the social media crowd from Google Wave and to somehting that might more be what they want. Don’t know, just speculating…or, conspiring 
What do you think? Will Google Buzz be good or bad for Google Wave?
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