Google just announced that Gmail is getting a big upgrade, Google Buzz which at least at the moment looks like a social network that runs on open protocols and talks to a wide range of service like Flickr and Twitter.
The goal would appear to become the central platform for all Social Communications from Email to Status Updates and allow you to keep on top of all of your friends and associates updates.
So far we know it will have the following features:
- Auto-following
- Rich, fast sharing experience
- Public and private sharing
- Inbox integration
A link will be appearing shortly in the side bar of all Gmail accounts that will give access to Google Buzz for now Google have released two videos, and within Buzz you can access external content and your friends updates, they seem to be drawing on community created ideas as well @Replies a popular feature of Twitter will be supported.
Buzz uses algorithms to help surface only the relevant posts and ignore the spam and noise, sounds like page rank for social interactions to me :-)
Mobile Buzz
You will be able to access buzz from your mobile phone in the same way you access Gmail or Google Wave now thorough their own link buzz.google.com
Mobile appears to be a big part of Buzz and looks like it features location aware features similar to latitude but tied to social updates.
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