Google launches Google Buzz
Google wants to bring order to the flood of information and has launched Google Buzz. The new service is designed not only to track updates from a user's contacts, but also to filter them by relevance.
With Google Buzz, Gmail users can organize and control their social communication on the Internet even more easily, as the Internet giant writes in a press release. When accessing the function via mobile devices, another important piece of information is added to the communication: the current location.
In today's world of status messages, tweets and update streams, it is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain an overview, the press release continues. Google Buzz is a new way to share news, photos or videos and to start or continue conversations. Buzz uses existing social contacts in Gmail and suggests friends based on previous email and chat history. Buzz is also designed to make it easier to share information publicly or privately, so that users only need to use one tool for different contacts or groups of friends. The tight integration with the existing Gmail inbox makes it a breeze to find and continue conversations in real time.
Google Buzz was developed as an open system. It already supports the integration of Picasa, Google Reader, YouTube, Flickr, Blogger and Twitter. More are to follow. Developers and providers who want to support Google Buzz with their products can do so via a simple feed-based API, which will later be expanded to a full API for reading and writing.
In today's world of status messages, tweets and update streams, it is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain an overview, the press release continues. Google Buzz is a new way to share news, photos or videos and to start or continue conversations. Buzz uses existing social contacts in Gmail and suggests friends based on previous email and chat history. Buzz is also designed to make it easier to share information publicly or privately, so that users only need to use one tool for different contacts or groups of friends. The tight integration with the existing Gmail inbox makes it a breeze to find and continue conversations in real time.
Google Buzz was developed as an open system. It already supports the integration of Picasa, Google Reader, YouTube, Flickr, Blogger and Twitter. More are to follow. Developers and providers who want to support Google Buzz with their products can do so via a simple feed-based API, which will later be expanded to a full API for reading and writing.
