Google Buzz is google's brand new attempt (Feb 9th 2010) to enter the social networking market. Integrated with Gmail, twitter, picassio, google mobile and a legion of other google affiliated sites google buzz entered the market with a rather skeptical audience and lukewarm reviews . This is google's attempt to compete with the likes of twitter and facebook or perhaps yet another step in google's grand scheme to take over the world!
Google buzz's features include twitter like features for updating your friends on what you are doing or interesting things you've found. Quick uploads of videos and pictures are also featured on the buzz which can be shared with a select group of friends. Friends are also automatically added to the buzz to lower the switching costs from twitter or facebook, but has lead to some criticism and even a lawsuit!
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9158858/Google_slapped_with_class_action_lawsuit_over_Buzz?taxonomyId=84
Some minor criticism of the buzz start with the name as one blogger writes "[The buzz ] competes in a giant game of corniest headlines ever". However, the biggest criticism lies in a privacy bug that has gotten google in hot water and their technicians working overtime.
Criticisms included bugs that would allow users to insert malicious code into google domain pages. Other criticism was that google buzz automatically added users to buzz feeds without the users consent. However, since the criticism most bugs have been fixed quickly. On the bright side, others are blogging about how google will overcome these difficulties and succeed as usual
