Gmail Buzz
Google unveiled their answer to social networking on Tuesday, releasing Google Buzz.
Google Buzz will be a new social networking feature, that will also be integrated into Gmail along with several other mobile products.
Executives at Google, explained that the main purpose for the new social networking tool, was to avoid all the noise which is now focused on the available networking sites, and only allow the important content.
Gmail will feature Buzz and it will add the ‘news feed’ feature to it’s free email service. It will have information from friends who have posted such things from YouTube Twitter updates, or photos from Flickr and alike.
Todd Jackson the product manager from Google Buzz spoke about the five key features Gmail Buzz presents, such as auto following, rich, fast sharing experience, public and private sharing, inbox integration and “just good stuff.”
The service which will be available from today will be released through your inbox. Google will give you the option to sign up to Buzz once you have opened sign in. Once you accept the terms, Gmail will automatically follow the 40 contacts you chat or email the most.
Jackson said, “We didn’t want users to have to peck out an entirely new social graph” when joining Buzz.
So if there is someone on your list your not keen on following you can drop them from the list, You are also able to follow information that people you may not know have released publicly.
“We want to make it possible to publish your thoughts to the world and [get] instantly indexed by Google, but [we] wanted to make it possible to share privately, and switch back and forth,” Jackson said about their public or privacy options.