Google Buzz for Beginners

Google Buzz Microblogging has recently become available to Gmail users. This beginners’ guide offers tips to microblog through Google Buzz:

Google Buzz “How-to” Microblog Tips

Fast Company’s How to Do Everything in Google Buzz offers tips to:

  • Connect other services/sites to Google Buzz
  • Post Buzz to only certain selected people
  • Get the permalink of a specific Buzz
  • Send Buzz via @ replies
  • Silence frequently updated Buzz posts and turn off Google Buzz
  • Use Google Buzz through your Andriod or iPhone devices

AEXT.net provides 12 Undocumented Tricks for Google Buzz to:

  • Format your Buzz’s texts (i.e. bold, italic, bold underline, etc)
  • Post to Buzz@gmail.com from SMS
  • Hide/Remove Google Buzz updates from your Gmail
  • Turn off Google Buzz
  • Indicate and notify the commenter you’re replying to
  • Access Buzz before it is enabled for your account
  • Re-Buzz
  • Show your geo-locations
  • Install Buzz extension for Firefox
  • Set up Buzz extensions for Google Chrome
  • Search on Buzz
  • Add “Buzz it” widget to your blog

ReadWriteWeb offers 5 Google Buzz Tips for the Advanced User to:

  • Get Buzz browser extensions
  • Hide your Buzz contact list (followers and followings) from public view
  • Update Buzz via email
  • Subscribe to someone’s Buzz via RSS
  • Email, link to, or mute a Buzz post

Push Google’s Buzz to Twitter’s Tweets

How To Bring Your Google Buzz Entries to Twitter from Louis Gray’s Silicon Valley’s Blog offers a way to share items from Google Buzz to Twitter in real time.

Google Buzz for WordPress Blogs

Tricks Daddy shows you how to:

  • Manually add “Buzz this” Button to your WordPress blog
  • Add “Buzz this” Button using Google Buzz WordPress Plugin

Too Much Google Buzz Microblogging?

If the amount of Buzz microblogged information becomes overwhelmed and starts to annoy you, hide your Google Buzz update count and icon in Gmail, and hide/remove Google Buzz Updates from your Gmail inbox.

Blogoscoped has given 5 Reasons Why Gmail Buzz Privacy Isn’t All That Bad.

However, if Google Buzz is really not a tool for you and you worry about personal information privacy issues, Jessica Dolcourt’s Buzz off: Disabling Google Buzz provides a 3-step procedure to turn off Google Buzz completely:

  • Purge your profile
  • Block your followers
  • Disable Buzz in Gmail

Comments

3 Responses to “Google Buzz for Beginners”

  1. gaurav on April 2nd, 2010 9:03 am

    hey do you know how we place video in the gmail buzz.
    also tell me whether buzz follow html or not.

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