Buzzzz?
Tommi Komulainen on 02/11/10 11:14:30

Must've missed something but seems to me that instead of following some people in Twitter, some in Qaiku, and some in Facebook you get to follow some people in Twitter, some in Qaiku, some in Facebook and some in Gmail.

Granted there's potential for people to gravitate towards Gmail but same could be argued about all the others as well.
Henri Bergius on 02/11/10 11:21:26

The APIs Google is building to Buzz enable it to work as "a hub" for different social networking environments. The whole thing seems to be based on common standards like social graph discovery (rel=me etc), Atom+Activity Streams and so forth.

We'll see if that happens, but at least I'm very interested in ensuring Qaiku and Buzz interoperate well.
Daniel Schildt on 02/11/10 11:40:54

Two way commenting is still missing from Buzz as comments made on items are not broadcasted back to original service(s). It will probably be implemented after a while.
Henri Bergius on 02/11/10 11:43:13

I'm just hacking up a quick experiment for pulling comments from Buzz back into my blog. We'll see how well that works. One issue is that the Buzz feed for items doesn't show where an item is coming from (this entry for instance only refers to Buzz, not to my blog), so only way to link them up is via titles.
Daniel Schildt on 02/11/10 11:49:51

Yes, that's problem at the current implementation of Buzz. Hopefully Google will make some sort of changes to make it more clear for people so that it wouldn't be so confusing for some people to notice where the content is coming from. Even then, content and conversations are going to cloud: instead of one location they will be distributed.
Marco Castellani on 02/11/10 12:15:35

Very good post.Just one thing; I tried yesterday Buzz from the iPod, and I remain deeply impressed about the geolocalization thing (one think that you do not experience from web). From mobile, I can see Buzzes (is it so?) from people in a very narrow range of space around me.. it was really a new experience.

For me, Buzz is following the old idea that was started with Jaiku on mobile, times ago...
Daniel Schildt on 02/11/10 12:20:22

Strangely, traditional email conversations (in Gmail's sense) changed to stream of semi-realtime conversations in form of Buzz. Google is finally learning how to do things right while there is still bugs and problems in the system.
Henri Bergius on 02/11/10 13:56:28

All right, somebodys blog is now automatically fetching Buzz about each blog post but not mine and showing it on site: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/buzz_may_end_segregation_in_microblogging/

Code is here: http://trac.midgard-project.org/changeset/25068