Friday, February 12th, 2010
Google Buzz is Big
Google Buzz, in case you haven’t heard yet, is Google’s new “Social” tool that wraps into all their other tools. So what, you may ask, well so WHAT is right. Google buzz isn’t just some wishy washy additional social tool, its a literal add on to all of Google’s products… you know, the one’s you’re already using. Maps, Gmail, etc, etc. Buzz from anywhere!
The basic idea is a combo of Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare all in one. Make a post, add a picture, share a link… but from any Google product you’re using. Say you’re at Sevnthsin (for example) and you’re just having an amazing time, you can post about it through Maps and it’ll show your post on the Sevnthsin location in Maps. How cool is that? Its like all your favorite social tools combined into one and are usable everywhere.
Its so big, in fact, Google released stats from the first two days Buzz was open to the public. Get this, 9 million+ posts averaging 200+ posts per minute from mobile devices. That’s some pretty impressive usage for a brand new product. Also a pretty impressive stat for the argument of Mobile usage today.
There’s some flaws in the Buzz right now, like you can’t use it with Google Apps on your own domain, has to be a GMail based account, there are also some privacy bugs right now, as in emails being displayed publicly. Sounds like Google is all over these issues and will have fixes for them all in the coming days, which is nice to see them being proactive.
More on Buzz over on TechCrunch: http://svns.in/7j
