I just gave Buzz a go by connecting my Twitter and Reader accounts.
Given that it's a pull-only service, by that I mean it only imports activities on other sites and services, I see little use for it as a centralized manager for the "social media" accounts I use on a regular basis. Realistically speaking, it's just <i>yet another</i> site I have to keep track of, because it doesn't add any functionality to the other sites, or support any two-way communication.
So instead of checking Facebook and Twitter for comments, I now have to check Facebook, Twitter and Buzz. Buzz also doesn't provide me with communication options I don't already have via instant messaging applications, or through Twitter.
Considering the UI's call/response nature (the threaded comments are nice, at least), it seems like a lame knockoff of Twitter born out of Google's bewildering resistance to buying Twitter.
I'd be way more interested in this if it had Wave and Voice integration instead of Gmail, I never use Gmail on the web anymore, it all forwards to another account that had IMAP before Gmail did.
I'll am interested to see what Buzz matures into given a little time. If it ends up allowing you to reply to sites instead of just process information it could be useful.
I am buzzing back and forth with Gravite2090 (PirateNinja). We're happy alone in our little buzzworld. It's like our very own two cans + string provided by google.
Seems pretty neat, though I just can't seem to get into the social networking thing. I have Facebook, Twitter, and a couple other things I can't even remember anymore but of course rarely use them, if at all.
But so far I am auto-following 7 people and none of them would use this stuff either.
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Given that it's a pull-only service, by that I mean it only imports activities on other sites and services, I see little use for it as a centralized manager for the "social media" accounts I use on a regular basis. Realistically speaking, it's just <i>yet another</i> site I have to keep track of, because it doesn't add any functionality to the other sites, or support any two-way communication.
So instead of checking Facebook and Twitter for comments, I now have to check Facebook, Twitter and Buzz. Buzz also doesn't provide me with communication options I don't already have via instant messaging applications, or through Twitter.
Considering the UI's call/response nature (the threaded comments are nice, at least), it seems like a lame knockoff of Twitter born out of Google's bewildering resistance to buying Twitter.
No thank you.
Pass.
But so far I am auto-following 7 people and none of them would use this stuff either.