Google Buzz on Gmail And Mobile Devices

Today on February 9, Google announced a new service called Google Buzz which lets its users to start conversations (very similar to Twitter) but directly within Gmail. More interesting part is that users can also link their own Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, and Google Reader accounts to their Buzz conversations which makes it more efficient. Each time a user posts, the user can publicly share their conversations or limit the conversations to selected contacts. Updates happen real time without the need for any refresh very similar to twitter. Another missing twitter feature is here in Buzz, the one which removes uninteresting posts from conversations.

Buzz also supports mobile devices right from the word go.
Google Buzz for mobile allows you to post buzz and keep up with your friends when you’re away from your computer, the feature which is available in Twitter. It also uses your location to identify places around you which makes use of Google Maps. You can select one of these places and attach it as location tag to your posts, or read what others have posted about the place.

Google Buzz is now available for the Apple iPhone and Android mobile devices.

Buzz’s Features

• Automatic friends lists, which means friends are added automatically whom you have emailed on Gmail)

• Public and private sharing of your conversations, which means you can swap between family.

• "Rich fast sharing" combines Picasa and Twitter into a single feed, and it includes full-sized photo browsing.

• Inbox integration (instead of emailing you with updates, Buzz features emails that update dynamically with all Buzz thread content)

Though Google Buzz is similar to twitter, it offers a host of features missing in any other social network which would encourage people to move on to Buzz.