Google Buzz<\/a>.<\/p>\nUnlike the iPad, Buzz is not a category killer. But it takes an existing category – the Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn world of social electronic interaction – and makes it… better.<\/p>\n
I love the idea of social networking. I hate some of its implementations. For instance, Facebook is a terrible service – slow, buggy, non-intuitive. <\/p>\n
Twitter is fast and a neat idea, but obviously limited in its implementation.<\/p>\n
I rarely use LinkedIn. <\/p>\n
But Google Buzz is potentially a useful collaborative tool that I can use across a range of relationships – from close friends, to family, to distant friends, to network contacts, to potential clients.<\/p>\n
It integrates into gmail, which allows me to use it in the same way I use email. It will connect with other legacy social network sites, such as twitter. And it will allow me to do social networking with a much richer range of tools – text, graphics, photos, and video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The kind of awe and admiration Greg has for Apple, I have for Google. Whereas Apple’s product launches are greeted with unending speculation, leaks, rumor-mongering and fanfare, Google quietly rolls out new features. Some are great – Google Voice has turned out to be surprisingly useful in my business. Others are not – I still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-technology","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11210,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11210\/google-releases-a-buzz-which-may-be-a-buzzkill-for-others\/","url_meta":{"origin":11250,"position":0},"title":"Google releases a Buzz which may be a BuzzKill for others","author":"Brad Coy","date":"February 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sure we can all agree that Google is big. Huge in fact. From what I understand they had a Super Bowl add this year. Who Dat? Google Dat! But everything they do is not always a hit. When was the last time you checked out Knol? Moving along. This\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Innovation"","block_context":{"text":"Innovation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/innovation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_1340.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14808,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14808\/google-plus-myspace-redux\/","url_meta":{"origin":11250,"position":1},"title":"Google Plus = MySpace Redux?","author":"Damon Chetson","date":"July 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"If MySpace (current valuation, $30 million) is the Facebook of the past, then what does that make Google Plus? I'm not sure. But, as an inveterate fan of all things Google, I hold some hope that Google will succeed where other platforms have failed, or are failing. I share Greg's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Technology"","block_context":{"text":"Technology","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11289,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11289\/google-and-the-artifacts-of-inefficiency\/","url_meta":{"origin":11250,"position":2},"title":"Google and the artifacts of inefficiency","author":"Tom Johnson","date":"February 12, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The interwebs are BUZZING about Google Buzz and how benevolent Google co-opted everyone's contact lists from their Gmail accounts. I wonder how many million valid email addresses Google captured in the first 30 minutes of Buzz going live? I try to remember that Google is the same benevolent company that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4653,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/4653\/project-bloodhound-online-reputation-management-its-in-the-google\/","url_meta":{"origin":11250,"position":3},"title":"Project Bloodhound: Online Reputation Management: “It’s in the Google”","author":"Teri Lussier","date":"September 25, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Incubating, according to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary: Etymology: Latin incubatus, past participle of incubare, from in- + cubare to lie transitive verb 1 a: to sit on (eggs) so as to hatch by the warmth of the body b: to maintain (as an embryo or a chemically active system) under conditions\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10624,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10624\/yelping-googly-trulia-is-google-is-doing-some-last-minute-holiday-shopping\/","url_meta":{"origin":11250,"position":4},"title":"Yelping Googly Trulia! Is Google is doing some last minute Holiday shopping?","author":"Brad Coy","date":"December 19, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"All this week there has been a lot of buzz around the interwebs about Google's possible acquisition of Yelp.com. The local reviews website has been wildly popular almost everywhere I have been in the country and could stand an image makeover in my humble opinion. One big enhancement could be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Innovation"","block_context":{"text":"Innovation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/innovation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"4198814802_07b3bed440_m","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/4198814802_07b3bed440_m.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":15566,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15566\/search-is-dead-long-live-search\/","url_meta":{"origin":11250,"position":5},"title":"Search is Dead, Long live Search","author":"Damon Chetson","date":"January 22, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"John Battelle has some interesting thoughts on search. Google's 2004 message to investors was: Our search results are the best we know how to produce. They are unbiased and objective, and we do not accept payment for them or for inclusion or more frequent updating. Google has abandoned that commitment.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Technology"","block_context":{"text":"Technology","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11251,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11250\/revisions\/11251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}