Google unleashed Buzz to the world this week.
What’s Buzz? That’s a hard question to answer.
What does it feel like?
It feels like a more streamlined version of Google Wave and Twitter. You have a timeline, followers, and people you follow, like in any Twitter like site. You also have the ability to post all sorts of neat shit into your Buzz, and with no character limit. Conversations are threaded, and you can pull information in from other sites, like Flickr, Twitter, Picasa, and more.
Do I like it?
Yes, I do, but there’s a problem.
I’m already on SO many social sites that I don’t think enough people from each of those will be moving to Buzz. Right now I use Twitter, Plurk, and Facebook as my 3 big social sites. I have a unique set of contacts on each one, with very little overlap. Will they move to using Buzz? Maybe, but I doubt it.
Where does this leave Buzz?
Who knows. It’s really cool, and I’d love to use it, but after the fiasco that was Wave…I’m not sure what the adoption will be.
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