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Google recently announced Google Buzz. So far all the people I am following seem to be confused what Buzz is really about. I shall now attempt to clear the confusion (or increase it).

Google Buzz brings social networking into Gmail and the rest of the Google applications. Whether or not you are into the whole social networking scene (twitter or facebook), Buzz offers a different approach to this scene.

Buzz’s key features are:

• Automatic friend lists (friends are added automatically who you have emailed on Gmail). This caused a lot of controversy since people were finding friends in their friend list which they did not want.
• “Rich fast sharing” combines sources like Picasa and Twitter into a single feed. It also includes a full sized photo browsing utility.
• Public and private Buzzs.
• Inbox integration (instead of emailing you with updates, like facebook does, Buzz features emails that update dynamically with all the Buzz threads).
• “Recommended Buzz” puts friend of friend content into your stream, even if you’re not acquainted. The system learns what you would be interested in overtime through user feedback.

Buzz lets you share photos, video, links to web sites, and other content from all over the web with your friends and your friends of friends.

The video below has been created by Google to better explain the purpose and the features of Buzz.

Official Google Blog Post regarding Buzz.

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