By JortK on April 26, 2010
We’ve been constantly updating Google Buzz, adding features that you’ve requested and making small tweaks that improve the experience for power users. Here are three things that have rolled out over the last couple weeks, one as recently as today: 1. Deliver interesting posts to your inbox. Sometimes you’re really interested in a certain conversation [...]
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By JortK on April 14, 2010
(Cross-posted from the Official Gmail Blog) We’ve seen lots of people using Google Buzz to share interesting links from around the web. To do so, you had to copy and paste the link from one browser window to another — there weren’t buttons that made it easy to post to Google Buzz without leaving the [...]
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By JortK on April 6, 2010
Shortly after launching Google Buzz, we quickly realized we didn’t get everything right and moved as fast as possible to improve the Buzz experience. We made a number of changes to the getting started experience based on your feedback, the most significant of which was replacing auto-following with suggestions for people to follow. Rather than [...]
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By JortK on April 2, 2010
Any Google Buzz post can turn into a lively discussion. Sometimes these conversations can gather lots of new comments very quickly, turning them into “skyscraper” posts that can dominate your entire screen, especially if you don’t check Buzz for a few days. We’ve heard from many of you that these big posts can be a [...]
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By JortK on March 15, 2010
When you participate in a conversation in Google Buzz, we bring that post to your inbox so it’s easy to keep up with the discussion. But we’ve heard loud and clear that buzz in your inbox can get noisy — we feel it too, so today we’re launching two features to help with this: 1) [...]
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By JortK on February 23, 2010
1. Post by email. You can post buzz by emailing buzz@gmail.com — super handy for posting photos you take on your phone. Photos that you attach to your email will appear along with the subject line of your message. You can choose who can see posts you email into Buzz from the connected sites menu [...]
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By JortK on February 22, 2010
Now that people have been playing with Google Buzz in Gmail for a week and we’ve rolled out the improvements we announced here over the weekend, we wanted to let you know about some tips and tricks to help you get the most out of Buzz. Here are five tips to get you started: 1. [...]
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By JortK on February 15, 2010
Naturally, which you launch a new product with a huge amount of hype, like Google Buzz, you’re going to want to own the .com domain name for it. And Google obtained googlebuzz.com just in the nick of time, according to a document from the National Arbitration Forum. On November 13, 2009, Google, represented by Meredith [...]
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By JortK on February 15, 2010
Here are some tips that help you use Google Buzz in new interesting ways. 1. Send direct messages. If you’d like to send a private message to someone, type @ and use Gmail’s autocomplete feature to find the email address of your contact. After typing the message, make sure that the private option is selected, [...]
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