Last week when I logged in my Google Account I found something new – an application asking permission to access my Gmail account. Yes, and it was called Buzz..!! Google buzz, the latest product of Google in the social networking area appears to be especially created for sharing the latest updates (latest BUZZ) among the networks. A few days ago Google launched it new social networking tool asking the world: “ARE U BUZZING?”
Google Buzz is actually a social networking tool provided by Google with a Gmail account. It gives users the power to share recent updates, photos, videos with other Gmail users. Google launched Buzz in two phases together:
- Gmail Account (Official Announcement at Gmail Blog)
- Google Mobile Application (official Announcement at Google Mobile Blog )
First Google launched BUZZ with Gmail accounts. It automatically follows the contact present in your chat list or more specifically it could be said this application automatically follows the friends whom you are in frequent contact with from your friends list. Google said it is integrating with existing social networks, and you can share directly to twitter from BUZZ now. You can make your post both public and private. Google also provides access separately from gmail, and anyone can login to Google Buzz from http://www.google.com/buzz.
For those who want to remove Google Buzz from their Gmail Account, Google provide a separate option for it from the Gmail account setting tab.
No doubt it is a very smart and timely approach from Google, Twitter etc. to provide both your professional contacts and social contacts together!
Gmail is one of most popular email services these days, and has a large number of users. Google already owns a popular social networking platform Orkut. The main advantage of using Google Buzz, is that people do not need to visit ant other website and log in there. They now can do public chat or micro bloging directly from there Gmail account.
Now the question of month is: Can Google compete with other social networking sites like facebook? Is this a real Twitter killer or a threat to Facebook? What I personally think is that it is an attempt by Google to keep its users from bothering to try another social network like Facebook or Twitter, because now they can get everything together under one account. Google may be successful, but one question arises: Are you ready to handle your professional and social network together? For me it is a little bit difficult – let’s see what you people think!
