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Thought Friendfeed Was Dead? Welcome to Google Buzz
Last November I wrote that Twitter was slowly becoming Friendfeed. And in October, the Friendfeed team said the service wasn’t going away. They were right!
Well today we learned that another company wants to be Friendfeed. I’d like to welcome you to Google Buzz.
You can read Google Buzz reviews from Alex Wilhelm of NextWeb and Louis Gray.
I’ve been watching the live stream of the Google Buzz event and it looks and functions exactly like Friendfeed except that it’s inside Gmail versus a stand-alone Web application like Friendfeed was/is.
I can only hope that Google Buzz works as smoothly as Friendfeed does and I also hope that Google Buzz pushes out as much as they pull in.
Update: There’s an excellent Google Buzz discussion thread started by Robert Scoble on Friendfeed.
Update 2: During the Q&A session, someone asked about the comparison to Friendfeed and the Google employee (sorry don’t know the name) replied with, ”we dont look at competitors, we just build what our users want”.
Update 3: Many on the Friendfeed chat and several of the questions noted that Google Buzz looks and acts just like Facebook.
[...] blog post have already heard about Google’s launch of Google Buzz. The service, which is amazingly similar to Friendfeed, basically brings together a person’s (or brand) social activity from across the Web and [...]
I am not sure how much but it will affect facebook and going forward google will add more features to Buzz!!!
Allen, in regards to you Update 3, as I pointed out in my post http://bit.ly/aQirU9 there is a huge piece missing to Google Buzz that Facebook has: Games and Apps. I also point out several pieces that FriendFeed still has over Google Buzz.
However, I didn’t have much to say about Twitter. Besides it’s user base and it’s API set, which has allowed some great 3rd party apps, Twitter doesn’t really have much to offer.
[...] details here, as well as reviews by Alex Wilhelm and Louis [...]
Looks pretty cool. Can’t wait to try it out. Looks too like they are integrating real time social network searches into their search results too.
Man it’s 11 am .. Buzz is LIVE and I’m not seeing it *sigh* .. and it’s me birthday, you’d think THAT’D count for something …. *sigh*
i dont have it either Mr. K – we aren’t cool enough I guess :(
Pre launch embargoed what? That was all live, Allen.
aah sorry – will edit now
Forget live blogs. Wait until 11 PST. :)
linked you up