One step too far

We need the internet to be open - not dominated by anyone. That's why I won't be using this.

Google has probably too much power already

Please...

...tell me you can switch it off. I rarely use the web interface anyway but this kind of crap splattered all over it will make it less 'rarely' and more like 'never, ever, even if my life depended on it'.

My memory may be failing me, but...

...I distinctly remember, back when Facebook started getting big, talk of social networking sites working towards some kind of common standard so that they can communicate with one another. Twitter and others seem to be quite open, but I've yet to see Facebook stuff feeding into anything else. Perhaps they feel their dominant position means they don't have to? I smell an anti-trust case somewhere along the lines...

Because, until all of these services start fully communicating with eachother, there is not a hope in hell of anyone with years of friends, photos and other content on Facebook suddenly upping sticks to anywhere else.

There's one or two things I like the look of in Buzz (the photo app looks much better than Facebook), so I'd like to take advantage of the better interface. But there's no way I'm bothering with anything else until standards are set and I can migrate easily to another service. I suspect many others would feel the same.

PS - for all the whiners: it's turned off by default (I don't plan to use it), and there's no indication at this stage that they're going to suddenly force it upon everyone.

Very convinced here...

...that Google Buzz will be the next big thing, like Froogle, no wait... like Orkut, uh noooo, wait, one more chance please... Nexus One, pffffft........

But seriously, who gives a fuzz about buzz?

Is this like google Wave?

Who in the strategy department came up with this one then?

Face it; people use Facebook for friends and Linkedin for business.

If Linkedin got of their lazy corporate arses and released a whit label version, every intranet in the world would be fare game.

Sorry Google, your world domination looks like it's stuck at search and maps.

Lets cut the bullshit here....

...this is just an attempt to replace Twitter, from a misguided behemoth of a stumbling ad-broker.

Google = the new microsoft. You've said it yourselves.

Hope this crashes and burns like that awful Wave thing.

meh... they can buzz off...

More fodder for their ad engines methinks.. not only can they target ads based on your email, but now what you/other people are "thinking"... I wish there was a way to extricate myself completely from the chocolate factory completely, its such a pity that the other search engines are piss poor in comparison...

Big brother because, it's one company that's watching over all of us now... not individual governments...

@mods, can we please have a "DO LOTS OF EVIL" icon???

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FTA:- "But unlike on Facebook and Twitter, you can post both publicly and privately"

Eh?

Buzztards

What a terrible idea.

Android 2.0+ Only

Most Android users are still waiting on their vendors to release the 2.0/1 firmware update.

Google Buzz for Android only works on Android 2.0 as it uses HTML5 for it's web app capabilities. Android 1.6 and below uses Google Gears for web apps which is not compatable.

Google have just left the majority of their userbase behind.

Also the Google Buzz layer for Google Maps mobile only works with version 4.0+, once again unavailable on Android 1.5 and below.

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The only reason Google are doing this is because they see 400 million people entering information into a system that they can't access, store and profile for advertising and they want it.

I'm guessing that anyone who "buzzes" about somtething is quickly going to find advertising on that thing plastered all over their inbox.

Its rubbish

Well I logged in and finally got buzz and was even more under whelmed than when I first saw wave. Its ugly, lacks the intuitive interface of twitter and lacks the tools and integration of facebook for communicating with family and friends. As far as I can see its totally fail and google should give up and concentrate on search and chrome!

Get lost Google.

>>"This is becoming a large-scale problem, a relevance problem. The kind of problem we like at Google. It’s like when we launched Gmail. Today, we're launching Google Buzz, a Google approach to sharing."

I think this shows how far up their own arses they really are!

I really am becoming to hate Google. I used to just dislike them, but this goes way past that.

And they genuinely think they will topple Facebook? I imagine I'll get plenty of invites from people saying that they are on Fuzz, but I don't care. Wanna interface with me - I'm on Facebook. I'm not going to run multiple social sites just because Google needs yet more market share. I did the same with Skype - wanna chat to me online, then I'm on Skype. Not going to maintain 8 different chat clients to keep everyone happy.

Screw you all. Bah humbug....

Hrrmm

I think I'm actually seeing Tweets and Facebook updates from people that I've followed with Buzz. And I absolutely, positively do not have a Twitter or Facebook account.

Interesting that this content is being parroted through Buzz. I may comment on one of them just to see if I can.

I agree this about chiefly about ads. Easy call there, nice slow one right over the plate.

People on facebook...

play Farmville or Yoville or some other lame wanna-be MMORPG. They bake fucking cupcakes to buy more shit for their digital fucking apartment. Life is boring, facebook proves it. Wake up you lazy fucking sheeple!

I'm working on a buzz now, you know the 'old fashioned' kind. Ale & other non mentionables.

There's a stop buzz link at the bottom of gmail

took me only 5 seconds to see that my Following / Followers included an ex-girlfriend that was still in my address book for me to delete the whole bloody thing.