Google Buzz LogoAs per the rumours by many websites yesterday, Google has finally launched Google Buzz, a social networking platform integrated into current Google services. You can access Google Buzz inside Gmail below the Inbox tab.

 

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Google Buzz packs in features like sharing of Video’s, Pictures, etc. It can also be integrated with your current Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, Youtube and more Streams. It gives you control to share with your content with whole world or just selected friends. Your current Gmail buddies or frequently contacted Gmail Clients are automatically added to the Buzz stream.

Google Buzz is also available for Mobile Phone’s. Another great feature of Google Buzz is geo-tagging capability. You can tag your location using the maps and even see the location of your friends in their buzzes.

Isn’t It Another Facebook / Google Wave?

Yes a lot of features matches the one already we see in Facebook. Though this is a more streamlined service by Google and some features are unique, such as integration with Maps for geo-tagging, etc. On the other hand Google Wave can be call as a future of the “Social Working”. By Social Working, I mean it is more directed towards collaborative working, rather than the usual Social networking which includes sharing updates from different services. Google Wave could be integrated as a sharing service in Google Buzz on a later stage but as of now these service are totally different from each other.

Introductory Video (by Google):

Here is a quick introduction video, which explains about the available feature’s in Google Buzz:

Reaction from Yahoo:

Here is a tweet from Yahoo within an hour of launch of Google Buzz:

Two years after #Yahoo! launched #Buzz, Google follows suit. Check out the original: http://buzz.yahoo.com/

P.S. Google is in a process of rolling our Buzz to all users. You will soon find the "Buzz" tab in Gmail.