Comments on: 3 Free Tips For Google: How to Make Buzz a Killer

By: Skip Bensley

Skip Bensley — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:31:46 +0000

Interesting, not sure I like buzz but your additions help certainly.

By: skipbensley

skipbensley — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:31:46 +0000

Interesting, not sure I like buzz but your additions help certainly.

By: Chad Northrup

Chad Northrup — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:24:49 +0000

I agree with all your thoughts here, Mike. I might be in the minority on this, but I'd like to see them add is a user-centric view which is basically an expansion of the Buzz user list you can see in Google Reader. I picture a sidebar with the list of all the users you follow, then you can click on any of them to expand and view their Buzz entries. This way I could briefly click into those noisy Scoble-like buzzers' streams to see if anything interests me, but focus most of my time on people I'm more closely connected with. Just my 2 cents…

By: Thomas Clothier

Thomas Clothier — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:03:32 +0000

Making the interface more compact would be a boon and your illustration is a step toward that. The “filter channels” can be set in the Google Profile pane, I think.. or in the “connected sites” link inside buzz. Buzz lets us define groups with which we share a post of our own. But filtering the actual nature/tags/content of posts by others would be a plus. When i “hide post” i am hoping that i am “hiding posts like these”. Likewise, when i “like” a post, that action shouldn't affect only that particular post, but posts like it (based on tags/words in the topic, etc). At the moment, one is only given the option to “stop following” a user entirely, or continue following, and hide his posts as they come. Lastly, I switched off twitter to buzz. i'm unlikely to have buzz to twitter as the two media are entirely different audiences and purposes, IMHO. I DO want to post buzz to FB to try and draw my friends into buzz, though.