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Google’s Buzz will it be the next social networking giant

February 16, 2010 | Author

A while ago Web Faceoff series conducted a survey asking users to vote between Twitter and Facebook as their favourite social networking site. Well the results, Facebook marginally managed (48%) over Twitter (40%). And now here comes something new – Google’s Buzz.

Google had minimal success in the social-networking field compare to Twitter and Facebook. But with this latest tool, Google is looking to give them a run for their money, and are hopeful to catch up with the leaders of the social networking world. They have closely integrated with their Gmail service to target a percentage of that market.

Google is famous for keeping things simple and easy, but with “Buzz” things were not quite upright. The major concern was their feeble approach to privacy.  Secondly, it was about “Auto-suggest” not like Twitter or Facebook where it will  suggest, but Buzz will allow users to follow you automatically.

So is it worth to shift base from Twitter or FaceBook? Another nagging issue was to do with convergence, most of the users didn’t like the idea of having one service for all. They would prefer their email to be here and social networking to be there and did not want to mix it. So it was all about changing human habits.

True to it’s reputation, last weekend google buzz team quickly amended the tool based on users’ feedback.

“It’s been an exciting and challenging week for the Buzz team,” says Buzz/Gmail Product Manager Todd Jackson. We’ve been getting feedback via the Gmail help forums and emails from friends and family, and we’ve also been able to do something new”

Started on a shaky note, Buzz is already showing signs of potential. Will it be able to phase out Facebook? It’s too early to predict, but then anything can happen. How do you rate “Buzz”? Share your views.

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  • http://think-machine.blogspot.com Ayreej Rahman

    As they say, Its better late than Never!

    Google had caught up with the status update concept of-late, when Facebook and Twitter has already acquired the market share 40% and 48% respectively. It seems that google never considered the idea to be potential enough unless they found the great success of Twitter.
    As far as I am concerned the Idea of One-Id-For-All is a great concept, and there still would be people interested in it, thinking about the convenience of remembering 3-10 passwords.

    There are a few good things that I found with the Buzz….

    1. One is that You dont have a 140 Character constrain:
    I tweet a lot but didn’t actually liked the way twitter refrained me to enter more than 140 characters in a single message…But Buzz in cool, you can can enter how much you want without shortening and screwing my message

    2- You can integrate sites like twitter, picassa etc using Buzz, So that whenever I tweet , it is listed in the Buzz too, my every update in the sites linked to it is shown to my followers..

    3- My blogpost: The feeds from my blog is pulled into buzz , now this is something similar to the previous point, but I wanted to give this emphasis, because I found this a very helpful tool to market my blog, each time I post something new, It’s shown to my followers *Un-tampered* and I have found my hits on the blog Increasing after the buzz-Blogger integration.

    One thing I would like to see is in Buzz is; A two way data transfer to twitter- so that I can sit back in the office, and tweet through the Buzz, that shows up in my twitter; This way I dont get my ass burnt by My Manager or Network guy!

    Cheers

  • http://think-machine.blogspot.com Ayreej Rahman

    As they say, Its better late than Never!

    Google had caught up with the status update concept of-late, when Facebook and Twitter has already acquired the market share 40% and 48% respectively. It seems that google never considered the idea to be potential enough unless they found the great success of Twitter.
    As far as I am concerned the Idea of One-Id-For-All is a great concept, and there still would be people interested in it, thinking about the convenience of remembering 3-10 passwords.

    There are a few good things that I found with the Buzz….

    1. One is that You dont have a 140 Character constrain:
    I tweet a lot but didn’t actually liked the way twitter refrained me to enter more than 140 characters in a single message…But Buzz in cool, you can can enter how much you want without shortening and screwing my message

    2- You can integrate sites like twitter, picassa etc using Buzz, So that whenever I tweet , it is listed in the Buzz too, my every update in the sites linked to it is shown to my followers..

    3- My blogpost: The feeds from my blog is pulled into buzz , now this is something similar to the previous point, but I wanted to give this emphasis, because I found this a very helpful tool to market my blog, each time I post something new, It’s shown to my followers *Un-tampered* and I have found my hits on the blog Increasing after the buzz-Blogger integration.

    One thing I would like to see is in Buzz is; A two way data transfer to twitter- so that I can sit back in the office, and tweet through the Buzz, that shows up in my twitter; This way I dont get my ass burnt by My Manager or Network guy!

    Cheers

  • http://www.fbmarketingtools.com Deidre Manthei

    Very interesting way to market on facebook. I also found a way to automate a couple very powerful methods of getting users. You can harvest ID by groups or pages or wall posts with this software. Then once you have the IDs you can do a friend blast to your user ID or sudo profile. This by passes the captcha codes too. There is also a cool chat program that you can setup scripts and keyword to work with. This program, when I use it I can see a spike in my site traffic. It is awesome…

  • http://www.fbmarketingtools.com Deidre Manthei

    Very interesting way to market on facebook. I also found a way to automate a couple very powerful methods of getting users. You can harvest ID by groups or pages or wall posts with this software. Then once you have the IDs you can do a friend blast to your user ID or sudo profile. This by passes the captcha codes too. There is also a cool chat program that you can setup scripts and keyword to work with. This program, when I use it I can see a spike in my site traffic. It is awesome…

  • http://www.fbmarketingtools.com Deidre Manthei

    Very interesting way to market on facebook. I also found a way to automate a couple very powerful methods of getting users. You can harvest ID by groups or pages or wall posts with this software. Then once you have the IDs you can do a friend blast to your user ID or sudo profile. This by passes the captcha codes too. There is also a cool chat program that you can setup scripts and keyword to work with. This program, when I use it I can see a spike in my site traffic. It is awesome…

  • http://www.netchuck.com Make Money Online

    Is Google going to compete with Facebook Buzz?

  • http://www.netchuck.com Make Money Online

    Is Google going to compete with Facebook Buzz?

  • http://www.netchuck.com Make Money Online

    Is Google going to compete with Facebook Buzz?

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