Tech Blog 1:Google Buzz

Finding the relevance in the noise

10/02/2010 Google launched their new service"Google buzz".

Google buzz,in some extent, is a new way to start conversations about the things you find interesting.Honestly speaking, it is much like twitter. However, cooperating with Google Map, it can sharing the stuff with your friends on the internet in any place and locate it.

Convenience & Timeliness

It's convenience because it was built just on the Gmail. Bysides, you can use it on your mobile phone and the google map.

If you go to someplace and find something very interesting, you can sign it and shot some pictures or write something about it. With the help of "Google buzz" you can share it with your friends immediatly. More amazing is that it can use as a guideline for your friend to follow when they came to the same place.

Finding relevance in the noise
I think the most intersting and important innovation "google buzz" gave us is the "location". In the Mobile devices "google buzz"add an important component to sharing: location. "Where were you when you shared this?" Tagging with geographical information have an extra dimension of context.

Thanks to the real-time upload and real-time search, this innovation of technology will help us better organize and share the social information. Most impotantly, help us finding the relevant information faster and easier.

We are in the epoch with the large amount of information. According to the Vannising Horizon of News, the most anxious one we need is those really relevant to our lives. However , traditional media tend to tell us those new far away from us, the close news they gave us is quite limited. Thank to the internet, the environment was changed, and I think with the application of "GOOGLE BUZZ" application, the so called "local news" will go even further.

Killer Application: mobile sharing, locational information