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Yesterday when woke up in the morning, all tweets mentioning about Google Buzz. When reached office and fired up google buzz, it did not appear on my gmail. Frustated, I open buzz on android. Tada, amazing. So enjoy the screenshots.
It supported all android phone with at least Eclair ROM (2.0), and Iphone (i think). So you have android phone, try load your browser and go to http://buzz.google.com. Enjoy.
Google announced Buzz today, a photo/videos/link/status sharing service. The big news here isn’t really the functionality of
PownceBuzz, but that Google is boldly integrating this directly into their Gmail product - essentially taking the product from zero to millions of users in a matter of hours. If this product is a success it will mean real competition for Twitter and useful real-time public data for Google.After giving it a go for a couple hours, here are a few changes/feature requests for the Google Buzz team:
- It sounds stupid, but you need a simple url for public profiles, http://google.com/profiles/kevinrose is a mouthful. Imagine a CNN host trying to plug their profile and having to say “google dot com slash profiles slash larry king”, can we just have google.com/larryking? (side note: /profile/kevinrose should redirect to /profiles/kevinrose not 404)
- Speaking of public profiles, this whole page needs to be redesigned. Adding custom backgrounds and a design that feels a little less utilitarian would be a good start.
- This auto-friend stuff is just straight confusing. I get it, but just because I’ve emailed with someone a few times doesn’t mean I want to auto-follow them. Where is the setting to turn this off?
- Is there an option to prevent the Buzz(es?, i?) from coming directly into my inbox? When Buzz starts feeling like a task (email), that bothers me.
- Where is the ‘Compose Buzz’ link? Only within the Buzz tab? Can an email be converted to a Buzz? Having Buzz in my inbox but no way to compose a Buzz from my inbox seems odd.
Not sure where Buzz fits in my arsenal of social media tools, how often I’ll use it, or if it will eventually feel too much like unread email — but I’m happy to see Google taking social media seriously. It’s early days, let the attention/follower wars begin.
Have a feature suggestion for Buzz? Add it to the comments!
Last week, Google take one step closer to world domination by introducing Google Public DNS. No fancy ads or whatsoever, just plain state change your DNS to easily remember number 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.
I have got mixed feeling with this announcement, as I am Google user (using GMail, Contact and Calendar) and I am also a OpenDNS user and even use the OpenDNS Dashboard to manage all the internet activity (as I am the owner of 2 cybercafes).
So I have to test this Google Public DNS and want to know the result. namebench a tool from google will do the test and pick up the best dns for you. I dont know and don’t have the time to check the algorithm (maybe google is cheating, who knows).
Currently I am using a Time Dot Com DNS and namebench result said that Google Public DNS is 9% faster than current dns(time).
So lets see the charts.
So, now I have to change my DNS to Google Public DNS. :) Any visitors want to comment or having a different result. please comment below.
While browsing twitter, the trending topic that caught my attention is “New Google Logo”. So I fired up my browser and type google.com . And there it is, the google logo is now change to some barcode image.
To my curious, I open up my HTC Dream and open Barcode Scanner application. And this is the screenshots
