Google Buzz vs. Wave
I don’t get it… I mean, really. What’s the deal with Google Buzz? You use it from GMail, which is cool, but how does it differ from Google Wave?
We were all so excited about Wave that we had to apply and wait to get our invitations. Then, as soon as we started to use it, we got tons of issues. Locking mainly, so that if you used it for any kind of meeting, it might kick you out and then, you couldn’t log in again to get back to your stuff. That was totally frustrating.
I’m guessing that Wave is real time as the old IRC chat used to be and Buzz is not. Buzz is more like Twitter. It’s pretty quick, but a stream, not real time chat like Google Talk.
What would we do without Google Talk? To me, that’s one of Google’s best tools. So, think of Wave as Google Talk and pictures and video and Google Buzz like Twitter with pictures and video.
Google Buzz will add a dimension to communicating that Twitter doesn’t have without using a side app… photo and video sharing. Buzz will also allow you to add multiple images and allow your followers to flip through them like Picassa.
I think I’ll use Google Buzz but only for close friends and business friends. Twitter started out that way and it was a lot more fun. You could talk to folks and keep up with them. When you have thousands of followers, it’s almost impossible to get to know many of them very well.
To get to Google Buzz, you need only to head over your GMail account. Though it’s being rolled out to current users slowly, I’m guessing that it won’t be very long before everyone has the capability to participate.
It’s something new.
We all like new.
What the hell?
