Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Integrating Buzz into Gmail

The world's No. 1 search engine on Tuesday launched Google Buzz, which allows users to quickly share messages, Web links and photos with friends and colleagues directly within Gmail, the company's popular email product. The company hopes that Buzz will help it catch up with online social networking leaders Facebook and Twitter.

In addition, a new arsenal of products make the new social networking features compatible with mobile devices such as smartphones based on Google's Android operating system.

Google's new technology strikingly resemble some of the key features of popular social networking services like Twitter and Facebook. The social networks continue to challenge Google for Web surfers' online time.

By integrating Buzz directly into Gmail, Google hopes to jumpstart its social networking push by leveraging the large pool of Gmail users.

According to Reuters, Gmail is the third most popular Web-based email in the world, with 176.5 million unique visitors in December. Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo Mail is No. 1 and No. 2, with 369.2 million and 303.7 million unique visitors, respectively.

Google said that it will roll out Buzz to Gmail users over the next few days.

2 comments:

prioritybooks said...

Hi Deb-
I hope it is easy to use. You know me and technology. How's life? Thanks for the beautiful holiday card. You and hubby looked smashingly beautiful and handsome.

Deb Sistrunk Nelson said...

PriorityBooks (Rose): Opinions are mixed on Google Buzz. I think it definitely needs some tweaking.

As for my personal life, it's all good. Hubby and I are abundantly blessed.

I hope all is well with you and yours. I'm thrilled to see your efforts to further brand yourself. :-)