Facebook, Orkut, Twitter, Hi5… in the already cluttered world of social networking comes along another. Google has launched Google Buzz, integrated into its highly popular email interface, Gmail. It not only lets you share a piece of text, but images, videos, links, all in the framework of the Gmail interface. It is being seen as a toned down, downgraded version of Google Wave, which hasn’t really caught on yet. What is catching the fancy of most people is the integration of Google maps and the fact that Buzz can be used easily via a mobile device.
Google has been making many changes ever since the launch of Google. With the view of making things easier for users, Buzz was launched with the feature that you would be automatically following the people you chat with. Based on user feedback, this has now been changed and the user will now be asked before he/she follows other users.
Although Buzz is now also being seen as an invasion of privacy, it remains to be seen if it really can catch up with Facebook and Twitter.
