Zahid Lilani – Technology and Social Media for Business

Is Google Buzz Here To Stay?

Posted on 02. Mar, 2010 by Zahid Lilani in Social Media, Technology

By now you have heard about Google Buzz and maybe given it a shot. At least you tried couple of times then you said “I think I should just check my email.”

You have to give it to Google that they were very smart about their new offering. Instead of launching it as a separate product like Wave, they launched it as a part of something already successful. In case you didn’t know, Gmail is the 3rd largest free email in the world.

I personally started out with Hotmail but always felt that email should be fast and easy. Gmail is fast and easy and that is why after using both Hotmail and Yahoo! I decided to divert everything to Gmail. Every time any website asks me for an email, I give out Hotmail. When people ask for email, I give them Gmail.

Lately, I haven’t had much time to play with it but so far it has been an okay experience. I don’t use Twitter much because when I ask a question on Buzz, I do get a response. On Twitter it is like I am shooting an arrow in the dark. I have more followers on Twitter by the way. Most people who are following me on Buzz are not really friends and I was little worried the other day that why exactly are all these people following me anyways but its all good, I embraced social media exhibitionism almost a year ago and don’t regret it… yet.

Buzz is here to stay because of many reasons, some of them are:

- Acts like FriendFeed but it is not.
- People who think Twitter is stupid love Buzz.
- You don’t have to work extra hard, its right their in your inbox.
- Real-time.

Gizmodo has written an excellent post on “What is Google Buzz?” which I suggest you read.

What do you think about Google Buzz? Like it? Hate it?

Tags: Facebook, google buzz, Twitter