Now that we have had a few days to use Buzz on the "open market" it's starting to get more and more attention. Here are some things I have observed about using Google Buzz from my personal perspective.
- Simple to join - I have a Gmail account so it was automatically on my Gmail page when I logged in.
- A little troubling - it had automatically followed the people I most email. Frankly I didn't want some of them added so I immediately "un-followed" them.
- Allows photos inline - unlike Twitter if you post a link to photos in your post it will display them in a slideshow lightbox. This is a cool feature even better than Facebook.
- Allows videos inline - not in comments but in the original post. All you have to do is post a link to any YouTube video, your own or others, and it automatically embeds and is playable inline.
- Will be integrating with Google Apps - that means if you have a Google app like a countdown timer to the end of the First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit or a Google map you can push it out to all of your followers. Obviously this also opens the door for custom developed Google apps like my mortgage finance estimator.
- On of my personal favorites - editable posts and comments! No more living with type-os or misspellings.
Inline video is very simple with Google Buzz - paste the link to any YouTube video.
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