When I started using twitter and was thinking of the how social networking can flourish further, I was thinking how nice it would have been if we had a twitter with multimedia support. It slipped off my mind after that, and Voila! Look who’s in the news! It’s Google again! And I was amazed to see what I thought in a little way was what Google has actually made a reality, of course taking it to greater heights than I was thinking.
Earthlings, say hello to ‘Google buzz’ - the latest, most revolutionary, groundbreaking integrated social networking solution by Google!
It lets you post updates in the form of text, video, photos and few other feeds. With the massive integration Google has within its components, this connects you to your contacts as and when buzz is activated, and resides in Gmail. I am yet to see all the good stuff of Buzz, but I can already feel how rich real time social networking is going to be.
Anyway, here’s a little heads up for getting buzz working for those who cannot see Buzz in Gmail. There are few pre-requisites.
- You need to have a Google profile.
- Fill it up and keep saving until it says that your profile is eligible to be caught by searches.
- Subscribe to a couple of Google services (you would generally have these already)
- Do some activity on one of them (Like sharing a post on Google Reader)
- Log back in to Gmail and say hello to the Buzz tab :)
Check out what it is all about....
