Google Buzz Widget for Android
Google Buzz Widget
Today via their blog Google announced the Buzz widget for Android. I wondered how long it would be before we’d see a widget for all the active Buzzards out there.
“Today, we’re excited to release a Google Buzz widget for Android phones that lets you post text and photos with a single tap. Like other mobile access points for Google Buzz, the widget lets you choose to tag your post with the location or place from which it was posted. You can post buzz about a great meal you had and share photos of the new restaurant. To save time, your posts will upload in the background, letting you get back to your scrumptious dessert without a wait.”
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Unfortunately for those of us stuck on Android 1.5 there was no Buzz love thrown our way. You must be running Android 1.6 or later and it’s available for English language users only with additional language support to be added.
Google Buzz Composer
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Categories: Google Tags: Android, Android 1.6, Google, Google Buzz
Google Buzz Working On Sprint HTC Hero
Buzz to Latitude and Latitude to Buzz
I’ve been playing around with Google Buzz the last couple of days and finally was able to get it to work on my HTC Hero via the buzz.google.com website. Well, maybe I should say I was able to get it to partially work. I’m able to post updates to Google Buzz minus my location.
This morning I logged into Google Maps and Latitude and noticed that my Buzz status update from February 13th was showing in my Latitude updates and I was able to converse back and forth with my fellow Buzzards in that update.
If you look at the 2nd and 3rd updates in the list, I posted those via Latitude, when I signed into my Buzz account from the computer I noticed that they had also cross posted to Buzz, but were only available to those people who were Latitude buddies.
Now I was on a mission to find out if there was a setting in Latitude that I was missing. Why were updates from Buzz on the mobile web showing in my Latitude updates? And, why were updates from Latitude showing in my Buzz updates but limited to my Latitude buddies? Read more…
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Categories: Google Tags: Android, Google Buzz, Google Latitude, HTC Hero
Share DroidTalk with Your Friends via Google Buzz
Google Buzz is shaping up to be an interesting new way to share content with your Gmail friends and fellow Buzzards (Buzz Followers). Now along with sharing your Flicker, Twitter, Picasa, and youTube content you can share interesting blog posts with the “Buzz This” button.
Our new Google Buzz button now makes it possible for you to share DroidTalk articles with other Buzzards. In order for the “Buzz This” button to work you’ll need to make sure you’ve set up Google Reader and included that in your “Connected Sites” on Buzz. If you already had a Reader account before setting up Buzz, chances are that’s already set up for you.
Try it now: click “Buzz This.”
Happy buzzing!
If you have a blog you’d like to add a “Buzz This” button to follow the directions posted here from the developer.
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Categories: Announcements Tags: Android, Flickr, Google, Google Buzz, iPhone, Picasa, twitter, YouTube
Google Unveils Buzz Live Updates
Today Google unveiled its real time status update addition to G-Mail named Buzz. Buzz much like Twitter allows users to update their status within G-Mail so that the world or the people they e-mail regularly know what they’re up to.
Google Buzz will auto-follow your frequent contacts, collect live updates from a your contacts and show not just direct messages but updates from Twitter and Google Reader. It doesn’t currently post outward; however, Google hints that Buzz may eventually make updates to Twitter and similar services in the future.
Buzz also aggregates media posts from Flickr, Picasa, and YouTube which are given special treatment and include special media browsers to view content without having to leave the existing environment. Read more…
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