Google Social Information Sharing Service: Google Buzz is Up
Google has updated Gmail with a "social networking" add-on dubbed Google Buzz, a tool for sharing personal info with others Facebook and Twitter.
Google executives framed the effort as a means to avoid all the "noise" currently present on social networking sites and only present the most important bits of information.
Buzz in Gmail will essentially add a "news feed" to the free e-mail service, pulling in information that friends have posted – videos from YouTube, photos from Picasa or Flickr, or updates from Twitter.
"Our belief is that organizing the social information on the web — finding relevance in the noise — has become a large-scale challenge, one that Google's experience in organizing information can help solve," the company said in a blog post. "We focused on building an easy-to-use sharing experience that richly integrates photos, videos and links, and makes it easy to share publicly or privately".
Gmail Buzz has five key features, Todd Jackson, product manager for Google Buzz, said during a presentation for the press: auto following; rich, fast sharing experience; public and private sharing; inbox integration; and "just the good stuff."
The service will start rolling out to all users today, and when it hits your inbox, Google will provide you with an option to sign up for Buzz after sign-in. Accept the terms, and Gmail with automatically follow the 40 people with whom you chat or e-mail most.
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