Some Quick Tips For Google Buzz

1. Buzz by email

Email your post to buzz@gmail.com from your Gmail / Google Mail account. There’s no 140-character limit either, so your post can be as long as you like.

2. Get Buzz out of your inbox

Buzz notifications appear with the rest of your email. If you’d rather they didn’t, it’s easy to empty your inbox. Create a filter and put “label:buzz” in the “has the words” section. Ignore the warning message and then select “Skip the inbox”. Once you click on Create Filter, your inbox will be Buzz-free.

CLEAN INBOX: Keep Buzz notifications out of your inbox by creating a filter for “label:buzz”

3. Format your text

If you add an *asterisk* before and after a word or phrase it becomes bold; if you use _underscores_ the text will be italicised; and if you put a -dash- before and after the word or text it will be shown with a line through it, as if you’ve scored it out.

4. Keep your followers private

To hide the list of those you follow: go to your Google Profile, edit it and uncheck the box marked “Display the list of people I’m following and people following me”. Buzz’s follower lists have caused controversy, so this option is likely to become much more prominent.

5. Use multiple inboxes

Would you like to keep Buzz out of your inbox but still see new messages on the front page of Google Mail? Then you need to enable Multiple Inboxes from the Labs section (it’s the icon of a green beaker). Once you’ve enabled it, you should see a link for Multiple Inboxes when you click on Settings.

In Pane 0, enter the criteria “is:buzz” and in Panel Title choose something descriptive, such as Buzz Messages. Then, click on Right Side of the Inbox and Save Changes. Your inbox will now have a second panel containing Buzz posts immediately to the right of the normal inbox.

MORE BOXES: Google Mail’s Labs can be used to tweak Buzz. We used Multiple Inboxes to show Buzzes next to our email inbox

6. Add your WordPress blog to Buzz – or add Buzz to your WordPress Blog

If you’re running a WordPress.com blog and you’d like Buzz to tell people when you’ve updated it, a bit of fiddling enables you to add your site to Buzz’s Connected Sites list [http://cuu508.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/adding-wordpress-com-blog-as-connected-site-in-google-buzz/]. Alternatively if you’d just like to list your Buzz posts in a panel on your blog, simply install the Google Buzz-er plugin [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-buzz-er/].

7. Put Buzz in your browser

As you’d expect, extensions already exist to put Buzz inside your browser. If you’re running Chrome there’s Chrome Buzz, while Firefox users can install Buzz It – or just add Buzz to their Sidebar.

8 Post to Twitter from Buzz

Buzz automatically publishes your posts in an RSS feed, which means you can use Twitterfeed to import and publish your Buzz posts to your Twitter account. You’ll find the feed URL by clicking on the RSS icon on your Google Profile. The same trick enables you to use RSS to read other people’s Buzz posts in your favourite RSS reader.

9. Save your Buzz searches

Another Labs feature, this: enable the Quick Links feature first, then search your Buzz posts for something specific. Copy the URL from the address bar and then look for the Quick Links box at the left hand side of Google Mail. Click on Add Quick Link, paste the URL, and your search will now be available for 1-click access whenever you need it.

10. Add other sites

You can automatically update Buzz from other sites by making them Connected Sites. To add a connected site, click on the Buzz link in Google Mail and then on the Connected Sites list next to your name.

You’ll see that you can add Google Reader, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, Google Chat and Picasa, but if you want to add sites that aren’t on the list you can do that, too. Google has published instructions on adding your own Connected Sites.

ADD NEW SITES: Connected Sites automatically update your Buzz feed when they’ve been updated. Google’s API enables you to add sites that Google hasn’t thought of

11. Buzz around locally

Buzz has been integrated into mobile phone mapping, but you can access it from your PC, too: go to http://maps.google.com/maps/m?lci=m, click on Layers and select Buzz. This enables you to see what the Buzz is near you – although when we tried it, the buzz appears to be that, er, nobody near us is actually using Buzz. Oh dear.

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Google Chrome will give your mouse pointer a new reason to get excited

As thousands of Mac fans and developers gather in San Francisco for this week’s Macworld conference, Google particularly delighted to announce a new beta release of Chrome for Mac.

More Information available on Google Official Blog

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“Google Buzz” Social Networking tool

Internet Most Use-able Search Engine Firm Google introduced a Social Networking Tool called Google Buzz Tuesday that allows sharing of status updates, images, and videos via a new Gmail tab called Google Buzz. The Google Buzz features will also be available on Android based phones as well as the iPhone (via a Web-based application) allowing for real-time updates to your Google Buzz feed that can show up on a new version of Google’s mobile maps.

Google Buzz In Gmail

Google Buzz In Gmail


Search Engine Firm Google says the new Google Buzz tab will begin showing up on about 1 percent of Gmail user accounts starting today. Google says the rest of Gmail users will be able to see a new Google Buzz tab in their accounts within a week.

Five Core Features

Search Engine Firm Google hopes that instead of conversing on Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace, you’ll instead turn to Google Buzz for Sharing Status Updates, Photos, and Videos. How will the search giant convince you to make Google Buzz your Social Network of Choice? Here are four key features revealed today.

1. Blends With Gmail

The main way of accessing Google Buzz will be through Gmail Account Id. Below your inbox, there will be a tab for Buzz(Google Buzz), allowing you to read status updates, photos, video etc… The 40 people you converse with the most in Gmail and G-chat are automatically added as friends. Buzz updates also appear in your inbox if someone comments on your updates or comments, or someone directs a Buzz to your attention by using the familiar “@” symbol.

2. “Page Rank” for Status Updates

Search Engine Firm Google brought up that familiar criticism of social networks, that no one cares if you ate a bagel or stubbed your toe. To compensate for noise, Google Buzz lets you like and dislike status updates, and learn over time whether to show or collapse status updates from your friends. It also looks for conversations outside your direct group of followers and adds them to your feed as recommendations.

3. Media Gets Pulled In

Photos from Flickr and Picasa and video from YouTube appear as thumbnails in Google Buzz. Click a YouTube thumbnail, and the video will expand to play inline. Click on a photo, and it’ll expand to fill most of the browser window, with the rest of the gallery in a narrow strip along the bottom of the screen.

If you post a link in Buzz, you’ll automatically be able to append images and the headline from that Web page. Finally, you can pull in tweets from Twitter (but no Facebook updates) into Buzz. Unfortunately, you can’t send your Buzz updates out to Twitter or other social networks.

4. Mobile Features

Google Buzz will be available as a mobile Web apps, letting you dictate status updates by voice and geotag your posts. When looking on Google Mobile Maps, Buzz updates appear directly on the map, so you can read location-based updates. You can also look for any recent Buzz updates posted near your current location.

5. Private and Public

With each update you send, you’ll have a choice of making it private or public. Private updates can go to all of your Buzz followers, or just a select group. Public updates are posted on your Google Profile page and are immediately indexed for Google Search.

Isn’t This Great ?

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Facebook revamps homepage with navigation updates

From past few days Facebook fans may have noticed some changes on their Facebook homepage.

  • Facebook is now very popular social networking sites reveals to have introduced new navigation features. The Most Recent Navigation Updates are modeled to enable users find exactly what they may be looking for on Facebook.

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New Search Tool Google Squared

Google Squared is a search tool that helps you quickly build a collection of facts from the Web, for any topic you specify.

  • Facts about your topic are organized into a table of items and attributes (we call them “Squares” for fun).
  • Customize these Squares to see just the items and attributes you’re interested in.
  • See the websites that served as sources for the information in your Square.
  • Save and share Squares with others.

For example, say you’re curious about which roller coasters are the fastest, tallest, and longest in the world. Until now, you would have had to comb through dozens of webpages to compile the information. With Google Squared, all you have to do is type [ roller coasters ] into the search box at http://www.google.com/squared and click Square it to see an automatically generated table of roller coasters and their attributes.

Google Squared is still in an experimental phase at this point, so you might encounter some hiccups while using it.

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