If you've been living under a tree for the past few days - like me - then you'll have missed the latest Google feature that's been added to your beloved Gmail. It's called
Google Buzz and right now, it's a whole lot of distraction & 'noise' as majority are calling it, in my inbox.
Don't get me wrong, I love Google and their products/features/store/mobile phone/the list goes on but right now, all that is happening is that it's integrated my 'social' profiles from Twitter, Picasa, Flickr, Google reader etc to my dear inbox and hoping I get the conversation going with followers - which aren't many - and people I'm following - which are many.
Thing is, the people I have as contacts/friends in Gmail are most likely to only read their email, reply and log off. They aren't the people to join the conversation and share content in the way it's intended, which sometimes, especially since I live and breath online; sucks. So what's happened is the people I genuinely find interesting with regards to the digital industry are now the ones having fat conversations in my inbox cause I'm following them but honestly, I'm following them on Twitter, friendfeed and their personal websites so why more noise on another product I use? I dunno. I dunno if I'm even making sense? I need a hug.
What do I like... besides Steers chips?
From the integration point of view, it's great way of simplifying all this information overload and bringing it into an area that I use all the time. As for the conversation, it does definitely work and I'm all about the conversation; finding ways to discuss ideas, interact with the users, finding ways to get messaging across and learning what works and what doesn't does tickle my fancy so there could be some potential there.
I do like the idea of the fast sharing experience and the real-time updates have been pretty quick. Also looking forward to see the location based sharing work on mobile and if that will have an effect or be a threat to the Foursquare and their check-in idea?
Anyone have thoughts on this? How will it add/simplify/take more time off our hands/manage our lives?
Bloggers note: I put these ideas together half awake, half trying to catch a mozzie last night so excuse the random thoughts, word vomited onto my blog post. I like it chilled anyway...
