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what's up everyone John Rhett enger' from TechnoBuffalo here and I want to give you an overview and a short tour of the just announced and just released Google Buzz service some are calling it Twitter killer and Facebook killer it is Google's entry into social networking and they do a pretty good job with it so let me show you what this looks like when you log into your Gmail if you're one of the few that has access to the beta you're gonna see a new icon rep your inbox called buzz with the new buzz logo it's sort of like a conversation cartoon thing with Google's colors right in it so the interface should be very familiar to anybody who's ever used the Gmail application standard wise and sort of the standard rudimentary features you can send updates just as you could on Twitter or Facebook no real character limits here I don't believe have been imposed type whatever you want and send it out anybody that you've emailed or emailed you and who has access to the buzz beta will be a follower or a friend if you want to call it and as this site rolls out and sort of becomes a release candidates you'll be able to have much more friends everybody's emailed and you get access to the bus service will be automatically integrated so you should have access immediately to a ton of friends so you can post to the world and let everybody see it who has access to Google Buzz or you can have the option to keep it private and just set your restrictions whomever you like to see it just your friends or just one or two people so this does do a couple of things differently than maybe you've seen on Twitter and Facebook let's say I want to send a link out so I've got a link right here from CNN East Coast storms are getting crazy I'm gonna go and copy the link go back to Google Buzz I'm gonna insert link paste it right in and it's automatically gonna pull in photos from that article and if I were to send this out the user who was reading these could click the photo and view it right away pretty a pretty cool thing to save so let me give you guys another demonstration of some of the features if someone for example inserts a picture say from Picasa or an image from the web it shows up right here in the buzz I don't know what you call you know Twitter you call it a tweet and maybe you just call this a buzz so if you click on the picture it pulls up a picture viewer which is quite nice and view the pictures almost natively if there were one or more images down below they'd show up in a carousel right here pretty handy way to view pictures now Google of course owns YouTube so you'd expect videos to have a pretty nice role in here so let me show you what it looks like when you insert a video I personally send out videos all the time to my followers on Twitter so this is a feature that I really like so here's round 8 of the console wars Xbox 360 vs. ps3 when I copy that link go back to Buzz and let me delete that post that I was messing around with and I'm gonna paste in that youtube link so you see it right here looks just like an image if I go ahead and post that you get a play button you can play the video right from Google Buzz which is I think a pretty handy feature you don't have to go somewhere else to look at your videos I look at your pictures it keeps everything right in line oh it's the feature that I definitely like now you've got the ability to to comment on any post you like and sets up almost a Gmail conversation thread you can like it or you can email the person directly now if you email a person or comment the notification gets sent right to their Gmail inbox they don't have to go in to Google Buzz see if they have any messages it's gonna show up right in their inbox so if you want to email somebody directly from this conversation window it works almost as you'd expect sort of from a Twitter standpoint give a NAT reply then it'd be user at whatever gmail.com then you can type your message hey how are ya and you go ahead and post that and that will get sent again right to the inbox now this does have some integration with with Flickr and Picasa and even Twitter so I think that it's going to be probably a pretty ubiquitous feature as Google sort of fine-tunes it and we move forward now I'm not so sure this is gonna cheer the widespread adoption right away that Google may be looking for but I think in the short term it's definitely going to drive the industry forward sites like Twitter and Facebook are really going out to be top of their game and continue to innovate if they want to maintain it's part of their market leader share Google certainly has the resources to put together a very very robust and feature filled application like it looks like they're doing here with Google Buzz they have a few other options that I'll show you you can pick your commenting options right here and delete the post link to post send it and you know there are a few other sort of high tech features that Google Buzz has but I want to give you just sort of a ten thousand view overview of Google Buzz or ten thousand foot overview of Google Buzz so as you can see what it does they start to hear about it more and more certain is gonna be picked up by the press you may hear your friend start to get access to it hope you guys enjoy it I'm John Rhett enger' from TechnoBuffalo and the big question is are you interested in Google Buzz and it's something that you think you might use might not use you know leave a text or a video comment I'm very interested to hear what you guys have to say anyway I will see you in the next video