Google Buzz

Anyone going to try it out?.... already trying on my iPhone and it seems to work quite well. Not sure the point yet though.

To me it seems they realised wave didnt have the mass appeal it could have so have no incorporated it into an existing service, i doubt i will use it too much

I watched about 10 seconds of their release video and thought.. zzz

I'll try it. I mean... I still prefer Google above Facebook and they still seem way less intrusive. I like the way that their services are implemented and work and how open the data is to developers whilst still protecting the user. It's all win usually... but I don't actually know what Buzz is yet... so I'll just wait until it appears in my Gmail and then try it.

saw this last night but i'm not sure how it's going work out, 'buzz' is also a crap name.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8506148.stm

so I'll just wait until it appears in my Gmail and then try it.

I have it my gmail and it's ok. The really cool part seems to be the buzz from a location aware mobile. It will automatically pick up local places of interest (restaurants, shops etc) and allow you to sellect that as where you are buzzing from. You can also see nearby place buzz and have a map overlay of hotspots.

Ah, it just uses Android's Latitude thingie (not the disabled iClone version) for location-based buzzing (like twittering but google's version). Right I get it. I'd prefer it if they didn't throw it in my face when I'm trying to open Gmail but still. Next.

I need to try this one. Facebook is dead for me socially after adding 1860 friends to build stronger mafia :-/

I need to try this one. Facebook is dead for me socially after adding 1860 friends to build stronger mafia :-/

haha, I done the same only for mob wars.. tho might try farm town

What kills things like facebook is your boss 'friending' you. I'd rather blind the soulless cunt with a HB pencil and set fire to his fucking hair, but I'm suddenly obliged to allow him access to photographs of my children and my bile filled status updates that usually were directed at him.

He does that thing where he only invites fit women, and then they send each other vacuous 'gifts' and sickeningly insincere hugs and kisses. You don't know each other!! One of you is from the puckered hairy rectum that is Wakefield, while the other wallows in buffalo dung in a malaria riddled farmstead a 100km from Phon Pehn! A shit picture of a teddy bear holding a love heart does not cut across cultural barriers, so just give over!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvcHNKUA6So

What kills things like facebook is your boss 'friending' you. I'd rather blind the soulless cunt with a HB pencil and set fire to his fucking hair, but I'm suddenly obliged to allow him access to photographs of my children and my bile filled status updates that usually were directed at him.

He does that thing where he only invites fit women, and then they send each other vacuous 'gifts' and sickeningly insincere hugs and kisses. You don't know each other!! One of you is from the puckered hairy rectum that is Wakefield, while the other wallows in buffalo dung in a malaria riddled farmstead a 100km from Phon Pehn! A shit picture of a teddy bear holding a love heart does not cut across cultural barriers, so just give over!!!

Hehe...
You can reduce what he sees of your profile. The updated facebook means you can group friends, this also works in the 'chat' function. That means you can group together all your friends that like to talk shit and stop them from seeing you online.

Job done!

What kills things like facebook is your boss 'friending' you.
You don't have to be "friends" with your boss, and you can always remove them from your friends if you've made the mistake of adding them.

I kinda like Buzz...

Too infinity and beyond?

You don't have a boss like mine.
"I sent you a friend request last night. Did you see it? Open your facebook. Go on. That's it. See, it's there. 1 friend request. Me. Click it. Ok! Now we're friends!"

"What happened to your facebook? I was online last night, and I couldn't see you on my friends list. Yeah, something might have gone wrong, I suppose. Open your facebook. I sent you another friends request. See? There it is. Click it. Ok! We're friends again! Let's hope that doesn't happen again..."

"I was online last night, and I couldn't see your pictures in your account. What's happened? Open your facebook. Hmm. They're all there. Strange. Maybe something's wrong with your settings...
I'll try again later, ok?"

I stopped using facebook.

I'm on there under a pseudonym though.

Lou Cypher.

I use the same avatar as on here.

Don't tell my boss...

Ok, that's a little over the top. I don't think it's unreasonable to tell your boss you don't want him being "friends" you could try explaining that you see it as a professional relationship, and you can't always be professional on facebook as you have less professional relationships with other people.

Or just tell him you closed your account...

I quite like it, not everyone uses gmail though so its pretty limited, at my end anyway.

ha, you have to keep your work life and social life seperate.
it's a "social" site for a reason

yeah trying it out, not one of googles best video tutorials though. Looks like buzz is trying to umbrella other social sites by feeding in twitter comments etc.

I get the feeling my google inbox is about to become a right mess.

I'm being quite aggressive about trying to compartmentalise.

But really, to do that properly requires me to get my contacts in order and create little groups for them all and go through the list carefully. The issue with that is that I have some 9,000 gmail contacts because I've got all my email since 1999 in Gmail... organising this is going to be a nightmare.

To make it worse, Google don't yet provide a way to search for ungrouped contacts, which would be the godsave that makes managing contacts a reasonable task. Thus far I've resorted to exporting the contacts, editing in Excel, and then importing. But Google barfs on merged contacts as those break CSV.

Buzz is great... but Buzz privacy relies on organising contacts and contact management is terrible. What a shame... a weak link in the chain.

I had to do that for ~2000 contacts. It wasn't fun but I got there. Do it VB.. you know you want to.

Fnck off

Do in VB??

steady on there.

I've done about 1,200 so far. Those were the easy ones though... from here it's about searching, seeing who it is, and then grouping. Taking ages.

Off.