Google Buzz – Google’s New Social Platform.

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 at 12:14 PM

Google has just released a brand new social marketing tool called Google Buzz.

What is it?

Google Buzz is sort of like a social marketing “hybrid” . What I mean is is – Google has basically taken the features of Facebook and Twitter and blended it together with their search expertise. Google has been talking about getting into the social media side of the net since 2007 when they purchased Jaiku (one of Twitters main competitors at the time).

This has been a highly anticipated launch, and I think it will just get better and better as time goes on. Google Buzz will be a great addition for anyone whether for personal use or for business. I also think that this is sort of a test that will play a part in Google Wave (yes, still in BETA).

Here are some of the features of Google Buzz:

Share links, videos, pictures, status updates, etc
Compatibility with mobile phones like the Iphone, Google’s Nexus One, and phones that support Android as well.
Automatically blended in with your Gmail account, so you don’t need to sign up for anything.

Google says they will roll out Google Buzz to 1% of it’s Gmail users starting today, and then continually roll it out to the rest during this week.