This morning Google announced Buzz as kind of a country cousin of Google Wave integrated with Gmail.
The idea is to bring social networking into Gmail and even the rest of the Google apps.
Top list of features:
- Automatically follow the people you email and chat with the most in Gmail.
- Publish your ideas to the world or just to your closest friends.
- Comments get sent right to your inbox so it’s easy to keep the conversation going.
- See thumbnails with each post, and browse full-screen photos from popular sites.
- Import your stuff from Twitter, Picasa, Flickr, and Google Reader.
- New posts and comments pop in as they happen. No refresh required.
- Buzz recommends interesting posts and weeds out ones you’re likely to skip.
- New Buzz overlay in Google Maps for location based posts.
From what I can see, Buzz looks a lot like Facebook‘s newsfeed.
There is also a mobile version that I was able to try on my iPhone that allows me to geotag my posts, if I want. Just point your phones browser to buzz.google.com.
Buzz began rolling out to Gmail accounts this morning and will continue over the next few days. I was able to check out the mobile version right away, but I am waiting for the Gmail integrated version to show up.
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