Google Buzz to take on Facebook and other social networking sites?
February 10, 2010 · Print This Article
Launch of Google Buzz announced
Google announce the launch of its social networking application called Google Buzz today. Buzz has all the familiar features users of Facebook, twitter and other social networking sites are familiar with such as the ability to post private or public status updates called twitts by Twitter and in the case of Google Buzz, you guess right “buzz”. You can share content from other sites such as Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and Picassa.
Google Buzz integrates with Gmail, not quite clear whether a Gmail account is a prerequisite for signing up to Buzz, but the integration with Gmail automatically gives Buzz a 170 million user base, which is the current number of Gmail users worldwide at present.
So far, Buzz does not seem to have any killer features strong enough to make the 400 million or so Facebook users abandon Faceebook for Buzz but it is early days, lets see how Buzz develops. This is the second social networking platform Google has launched in the last six years. In 2004, it released Orkut which is quite popular in countries such as Brazil and India, never caught on in Western Europe and other places where Facebook is the the most popular social networking site.
Google has developed a number of services to rival popular services in the past including Google Video which was launched when YouTube became very popular, Google Video as not able to compete with YouTube, Google eventually bought YouTube and merged Google Video users into it.
You can discouss Google buzz a UK webmaster forum
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I believe it will be a prerequisite to have a gmail account in order to use Buzz, which in and of itself is not that big a deal. I’ve heard some positive predictions regarding the social networking capabilities of Buzz but I think I’m going to sit the early adopter round out and see if it’s going to fly before I try it out.