I posted on Wednesday, just as Google Buzz was announced, asking whether Google Buzz was just Google Wave done right. I’ve now had Google Buzz in my GMail account for just over 24 hours, and I think I can answer the question: Not quite yet.
Why?
Google Buzz has a lot of the hallmarks of Google Wave. It allows you to easily share a message with your friends, or publicly. It allows you to share links and photos easily. It’s got a nice UI and expands well on what the competition, Twitter, provides. However, it’s not as technically cool as Wave. Google Buzz lacks the killer feature of Wave, for me, though I know it’s going to sound incredibly sad – it’s missing the ability to drag and drop pictures from your computer to the internet.
As far as general opinions on Google Buzz go, I like it and think it stands a real chance. If nothing else, it should light some fires under the feet of the Twitter team, which can only be a good thing. Buzz has a few niggles, such alerting me whenever something changes in my stream – but then not highlighting those changes clearly enough on the resulting page, but I’m sure that’ll get sorted quickly enough. Twitter integration is nice, but it’s too slow to be useful – I don’t want to see what people were saying an hour ago.
I’m intrigued how quickly this blog entry will make it into Buzz. This blog is fed to Twitter, pings various sites on posting, and also has PubSubHubBub integrated. The theory is that it should be near-instant.
Just to follow up again, Google Buzz had this post in my stream before I’d even switched back over to GMail. I’m rather impressed.
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