Yesterday Google launched the service Google Buzz, and is now going for a direct attack against Facebook in the social sphere.
Google Buzz allows users of Google to enter a status message which is then displayed for all acquaintances in the user’s contact list in Gmail.
Unlike Twitter, it is possible to add both images and video clips in the status message, although this can also be done in Facebook.
Google Buzz supports the integration of media from Picasa, Youtube, Flickr and Twitter. But support for a link to Facebook is currently lacking.
According to Dan Olds, an analyst at the Gabriel Consulting Group, there is a lot of eyeballs that Google is now missing.
“Google obviously covets the millions and millions of Facebook and Myspace users and wants to monetize them,” added Olds. “This represents a new market for Google, which up to now has had tools that users would use for particular tasks rather than linger on for extended periods of time. This is a serious bid by Google to use its strengths in other areas – think search, mobility and locality – to support its own social networking hub.”, he says.
Google buzz is already in a mobile version that works for all users of Gmail. If you can not you see a tab called Buzz in the inbox-tab in Gmail, it will be added to Gmail users gradually over the next few days.
Below are some of the new features and a video that explains more about Google Buzz. You can also get more information by entering the Google Buzz website.
And here is the recently released video about Google Buzz:
