So what is it?
Well, essentially it's an RSS feed with all of your combined social networks. You can go to gmail.com, log into your account, and see your Twitter feed, your Picasa and Flickr feed, Google Reader...and the list goes on.
For me, it combines the best features of Facebook (likes, dislikes, threads) and Twitter (personal activity stream) and mashes them up into one thing. It's smarter than a FriendFeed, because it only shows what makes sense to you at that particular moment.
I've always been frustrated with having to go to all of my different social networking accounts and not being able to see them all in one stream/feed..but I think that Google Buzz is hopefully going to change this.
There have been some interesting privacy issues of late regarding Google Buzz, and of course one must ask about Google's motives in amassing all of the information in the world. However it does manages to take all of our social networking stuff and streamline it into ONE conversation..which is pretty cool.
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