Google Buzz Review

I don't have a recommendation at this point, because I have mixed feelings over the service. 

Quick Summary

Google Buzz is a service that was introduced just a few days ago to let google combat social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and so on. However, it has some serious issues with privacy. Essentially, Buzz is a feed that you can post thoughts, pictures, blog posts, videos, google reader, and more. It lets you sync most google services and also some other services like flickr and twitter. It only pulls these services in and lets you share the content from them, but not publish to them. Essentially buzz is another form of social networking, but rather focused on google gmail users. 

What I Like

• Lets you share things with your google gmail contacts very easily. 
• Greater than 140 characters. 
• Easily accessible from gmail.

What I Don't Like

• Privacy settings are completely out of whack at the moment. Needs to be made way more secure. 
• Another distraction in my inbox when I am already distracted by too much mail.
• You can "turn off buzz" but other people still see you, you just don't see them.

Interesting links to articles about buzz:

Privacy Issues - http://tcrn.ch/aplJdL

Buzz Hatred (F*&k You Google) - http://bit.ly/coTgSB
Extensive Privacy article: http://bit.ly/arvvNY