So, I’m tiring of the whole social network thing. Facebook is full of “noise” and twitter seems to be the world’s largest intellectual toilet bowl. Thankfully Google has introduced Buzz.
Buzz is designed to offer easier ways to share links, photos, and other information, corral all those things shared by friends and other connections, and integrate well with other services in an open way. Buzz also offers a way for anyone you’re connected to via your Google contacts to comment on the things you share, much like your friends can on Facebook. Further, it adopts the de facto standard of using “@replies” to send notices to specific users.
In addition, Buzz gives users control over how information is shared. Posts can be made public or private. You can create groups of contacts, such as “co-workers” and mark items as shared with only that group, multiple groups, or just a single contact.
Everything that is shared publicly is instantly indexed by Google search index, and Buzz streams and comments update in real time.
You should check it out.
And you should check out Google Wave. Try the wave below. You might need to sign up for GMail and Wave first, though. Let me know if you need an invitation.
[wave id="googlewave.com!w+W22cB8avC"]