And why would I want it?

Are they trying to replicate facebook in gmail?

And twitter too, I think.

Think more like twitter. A bunch of folks who think others want to know their impressions of a restaurant or what a statue looks like.

Potentially, you could be notified of traffic problems ahead with google maps on your iPhone or Droid, but what I've seen so far, most of the users are cluttering it up with junk. It's looking like another way for folks to seek attention, and it will quickly be overwhelmed with nonsense.

We share our offices with the BBC and they have a monitor on the wall. As I was walking by it yesterday it was doing those filler bits, and the technology one was Buzz, saying how it was going to go head to head with facebook and twitter.

So when I got home, I watched the video at buzz.google.com and for the life of me I can't really see how it's much different then facebook is. Maybe it may do some of the stuff faster or better, but for the most part, it's not stuff that I use that much like the ability to play inline videos (which facebook does too)

So I don't get the buzz about buzz yet.

Is this different from yahoo buzz?

What I've always found interesting is how there's never successfully been 'one' player on the internet who gives you everything as a one stop shop.

Once they get market share, unless they do something really crazy, you can't topple one of the market leaders. I mean who is ever going to topple -

- YoutubeGoogle for video sharing
- Flickr for picture sharing
- MSN for Instant Messaging
- Google for Search & Street View
- eBay for Auctions
- Twitter for Microblogging
- Amazon for Books
- Yahoo! for value-added web content like Yahoo! Questions, Yahoo! Groups etc.
- Facebook for social networking
etc.

Others might occasionally try to take a bite out of someone else (Bing Maps nipping Google Maps, for example), but unless one monster acquires the other in my opinion they're never going to get market share.

Yeah but AOL Instant Messenger was the leader for Instant Messaging as well as many other search engines being popular before google came along.

it's just a bunch of buzz...

actually, i think it might be quite useful, especially if you are already using a lot off google's features: gmail, calendar, etc. i just started using it this morning and i've already had a lot of interaction with all my friend's just within a couple of hours. it's also good for ppl who have facebook blocked at work.

here's an interesting article for the potential of buzz:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=1212&tag=nl.e550

I've been trying to use it and get my head around it since yesterday. I've been able to coordinate my twiiter feeds and lists to view there, but honestly for THAT feed I prefer to keep it seperate in a seperate client like tweetdeck. For other things, like WAVE integration it might prove better for me. Honestly, I don't think having everything integrated is best for ME at least and I think maybe for others too, but of course that is what GOOGLE wants, everything in one place, so they can query and catalogue and keep you there. I'll continue to use it a month or so and see if I can adopt it more.

You could probably ask the folks at Photobucket, Mapquest, Ubid, Barnes and Noble or Borders, Ask Jeeves, AltaVista, Myspace, and the folks who ran newsgroups. They have all pretty much been toppled by the current players.

If there's one thing to learn from that is that any current leader always needs to watch it's back, you never know when there's something coming up you never even considered (Twitter for example)

Same here, I don't want everything in one place. I prefer to keep my social networking separate.

From wired.com:

Their experience with it, hands-on, here. (Author Michael Calore likes it.)

What Microsoft and Yahoo think of it, here. (They don't think it's all that great. Big surprise there.)

Who did twitter unseat? I would argue that new thrones get created and perhaps gobble some of the pool of ad dollars (i.e. Twitter), but none of those big internet players will get unseated from their niches any time soon...

http://www.businessinsider.com/warni...cy-flaw-2010-2