Google has recently launched its social service representative Google buzz with all its buzzing sound. Although the old tactics of Google haven’t got success in the social media domain and you witnessed seem-to-be-large-social-platform orkut was limited to Brazil and India, but the Google Buzz has come up with competitive features in the social-tech world.

Mind you, competitive but almost the same, the same social networking. It copied the feature of Facebook and Twitter that allows users to share real time status updates with contact list, post photos and links to get in touch with your Gmail contacts.Now what are the common in about 3 years old Facebook and few days Google Buzz.Real time status updates-Both in Facebook and Google buzz, you can update your status updates in real time.

Whether it’s an invention of yours or you are just having a bad day, you can share it with your friend list and keep them updated by every second.This is the best way to boost your business directory, and give your business a real time advantage by sharing tiny-miny updates with your fans or friends.Share publicly or privatelyIf it’s your private profile and you just don’t want it to be too public for everyone? You can opt for security and get it private.

This option is both available in Facebook and Google buzz and if the some freaking person you hate the most, will never ever be able to peep into your area. Happy ?Inbox Integration Facebook and Google buzz both get you notifications in your mailbox as they are posted. But the only difference is, Google buzz gets you mails in Gmail inbox while Facebook gets you notifications in the mail address you have mentioned (yahoo, Gmail, hotmail etc)Bringing good stuff Because of the intelligence, both Facebook and Google buzz recommend you links you might be interested in.

Facebook gives you an option to refine your ‘what you want to see and what not’, while Google buzz automatically skips the links you are not likely to like.Above mentioned similarities give the same feel of both mediums but the functionalities are a way different. As Facebook is more expanded and are on large scale and Google buzz is just a starter and several hundred things can yet be discovered. If you are a Gmail user, you surely going to love it and if you are not I still suggest you to have a look and compare yourself with Facebook.

While Google has long held top search engine and is huge in advertising and marketing, it has never been able to break into social networking in a meaningful way. That is all going to change with the advent of Google Buzz.

What is Google Buzz?

Google is adding social feature to their products to create common tools for building social applications. The company believes it can help users sort through the massive amounts of information they face each day to find meaningful conversations. Recent additions to the Google lineup include real-time searching and Social Search.

Google envisions Google Buzz as a completely open software platform. The company is sharing information with developers and asking them to join Google and creating code for the project. With the help of developers, there is a good chance Google can eke out a niche in the social networking landscape.

Innovations of Google Buzz

One of the differences in Google Buzz is that it is built into Gmail (Google’s email application). Similar to other social networking applications, Google Buzz allows users to follow their friends online, and it allows users to integrate photos, videos, and Internet links. Picasa, Flickr, Youtube, Blogger, and Twitter were already fully integrated into Google Buzz with more social networking integration likely in the future.

One of the innovations of Google Buzz on smart phones is that it takes GPS information from the cell phone and uses it to tag information with where you were when you shared the information. The information is carried through a “Buzz Layer” in Google Maps. Your followers will know who you are, what you know, and where you are.

A Potential Issue

This leads us to perhaps the one potential problem for Google in rolling out the new system. Some people worry about privacy. Google has a reputation for overlooking privacy concerns as when it enabled Google Reader to automatically send friends information that users wanted to keep private.

The factor that might determine whether Google Buzz is the next big idea or the next big flop is if users can sufficiently control their information. Although we are going through a social information revolution, there are still individuals and companies who choose privacy over connectivity.

If you are automatically provided Google Buzz like I have through gmail, I suggest you take a measured approach. Place your privacy setting on the most conservative possible until we fully understand the power and limitations of this new social marketing tool.

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The Buzz That Is Google Buzz

Earlier this week, Google launch its latest foray into social networking, the Google Buzz. It seems to be generating quite a buzz among web users, and will probably be most successful social attempt yet from Google. While a lot has been covered about the launch, critics, privacy issues, and the fix, little has been discussed about the implications to webmasters and web marketers.

Emergence of social bookmarking has revolutionized web marketing in more than one ways, starting with early social bookmarking for geeks such as Digg and to Facebook and Twitter. Will Google Buzz makes any dent to Facebook and Twitter, the currently preferred choices of web marketers?

I do think so. This might be a little biased, since I am a huge fan of Google and everything the company do, but I believe the Google Buzz will be very successful.

Now, just 2 days into launching, there are already more than 9 million posts and comments. Obviously, this is an additional avenue for promoting whatever product and services you have, including your websites. Google Buzz will also allow webmasters to interact with site visitors in a way that Twitter can not; visitors can comments your post in a Facebook-style conversation.

Tips For Web Marketing With Google Buzz

# Create an account now

If you do not have Gmail account yet, create one now. Most Gmail users will be presented with Google Buzz once they login. If it is not, open http://www. google. com/buzz and click Try Buzz on Gmail. No further setup required.

# Create a Public Profile

Imagine having links to your website from a PR10 website. Now that is possible with Google profile. After sign in to Google Buzz, create your public profile and add link to your site.

# Interesting Buzz

As in any social network, you will need to constantly create and post interesting stories, photos, and videos to increase your influence in the social network.

# Popularity

When there are too many posts in your followed people, Google will filter out the contents and show only the most popular contents. Those with more comments and views wins out.

# Follow

Buzz shows who follows you and suggest you to follow back. This can easily benefit you. Follow as many people in your industry as you can, and get some follow back.

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Google Buzz was officially introduced on February 9, 2010 in the Official Google Blog. You can read the entire blog post on Google’s blog. To summarize, Google Buzz is Google’s answer to the increasing popularity of Facebook – particularly among younger Internet users. In fact a recent study released by Pew Internet and American Life project found that 73 percent of teens who are online use social networking sites. The study was based on a telephone survey of 800 people, aged 12 to 17, that was conducted from June to September of 2009. As Google previously had a miniscule presence in social networking, Buzz is another of the Google ”steps taken to add social features to our products”.

Google Buzz is built around the Gmail emailing platform. In fact, it is automatically built into Gmail retroactively for every single Gmail user. According to Google’s own description of the new product, ”Google Buzz is a new way to start conversations about the things you find interesting. It’s built right into Gmail, so you don’t have to peck out an entirely new set of friends from scratch — it just works”. That may be true, buy I soon found that my work contacts – for instance the folks over at HostingCon or my friends at website hosting firm 34SP. com – were now viewing all my private contacts – that is, my family and friends private contact info. This was done without my knowledge or authorization by Google.

This automatic and retroactive nature of Google Buzz has immediately raised serious privacy concerns among Internet experts. In fact, one day after launching the service, experts at venerated online technology site CNET pointed out privacy concerns. There is no doubt that the Google Buzz service was turned on by Google without checking with each individual user. Therefore there are many users out there that do NOT want this new intrusive service added to their private email account.

But how do you turn Google Buzz off?

Although it is somewhat hidden, there is a mechanism to turn off Google Buzz. Here are the steps to turn it off.

To Turn Off Google Buzz

Step 1 – Sign in to your Gmail account with your username and password.

Step 2 – O
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n the left hand side of your Gmail interface (under the Gmail by Google logo) locate and click on the link that says: Buzz.

Step 3 – Scroll to the very bottom of the page and look for a line of text that looks like this:

Gmail view: standard | turn off chat | turn off buzz | older version | basic HTML Learn more

Step 4 – Click on ”turn off buzz”.

Google Buzz is now turned off. If you do decide that you want to turn Google Buzz back on – simply go to the bottom of your Gmail account and find the same line of text as before. It will now look like this:

Gmail view: standard | turn off chat | turn on buzz | older version | basic HTML Learn more

Select ”turn on buzz” to re-activate the Buzz service.

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Here are some tips and tricks about new google buzz

1.Add google buzz button to your blogspot. 2. How to Disable e-mail notification

3. Add more connecting sites.

Google Buzz lets you import content from services like Google Reader, Picasa, Blogger, Twitter, Flickr.

4.Google buzz -keyboard shortcuts

Shift+l – like a message m – mute (ignore) a conversation r – add a comment

5.Subscribe to a Google Buzz account in a feed reader Google Buzz’s search feature shows the latest public messages that match your query. Some useful searches:

6. Hide Google Buzz counter

Google Buzz’s search feature shows the latest public messages that match your query. Some useful searches: author:@gmail.com – find all the messages written by a specific user (you can also use a partial name instead of an email address)commenter:@gmail.com – find all the messages that have a comment from a specific userhas:photo, has:video, has:link – restricts the results to messages that include photos, videos or links (for example: vancouver has:photo)source:flickr, source:twitter, source:reader- restricts the results to messages imported from Flickr, Twitter, Google Reader (for example: vancouver source:flickr)

7. View Google Buzz photos in a slideshow When you upload photos to Google Buzz, they’re added to Picasa Web Albums. If you click on a thumbnail, Google Buzz will open a lightbox to help you quickly navigate between images. Unfortunately, there’s no option to view the images in a slideshow, but Picasa Web Albums has this feature and there’s a small link that opens the photo album. Click on “view all” and you can select the slideshow option, export photos using Picasa or print photos.

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