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Not sure about it either. Between my gmail, work email, wordpress, facebook, twitter, tumblr, and a few forums, I think I've reached my limit of things to check.

I'm with Alyssa - unless this does something fundamentally different/better why do I want it?

2 GMail accounts, 2 Hotmail accounts, one Yahoo account, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, Last FM, LinkedIn, RSS.  I was talking to a friend about this last night actually: I am full.  No more room for shite.

In agreement with most everyone that I'm at my social networking limit. Smart of them to have integrated it with Gmail, though. If you have a gmail account it seems like it would be pretty easy to try out.

I tried it out as well. Plenty of comments, but no tacos. Those icons lied.

Now that my gmail server finally updated... It doesn't seem like its a service to add to your list of social website repertoire, more of an aggregate location to connect them all (google reader : rss :: buzz : social networks). I use google reader and it's share functionality a lot and I had to hack up a way to get those shared items into twitter, so that aspect of it is nice. The more saturated the social web becomes I think the more i'll use buzz to keep track of some of it.

I'm with Sean R on this one. If Google is going to act like Ike Turner, then I'm going to act like Tina. That is to say, I'm going to show off my sexy legs elsewhere.

3 gmail accounts, 3 twitters, 2 myspaces, facebook, hypem, lastfm, soundcloud, fartilizer, loads of other blogs to read... stop moaning... just add google buzz to top it all off??

Add me even if I haven't worked out how to use it yet http://www.google.com/profiles/samamuze

Starting to warm up to it... hmmm... http://www.google.com/profiles/109213641028004921717#buzz

you can turn it off at the bottom of your gmail page. I did.

@Tsuru - Thanks. Done and done. Buzz = silence.

To be fair, this is the risk you take when you try new things.

Trying something new involves risk, period. Whether it's entering a new marketplace or creating a new product. It really doesn't matter if you're the biggest company in the world or not. It's just that big companies like that tend to go for the sure thing. The more people you have to answer to (read: stockholders), the fewer risks you're likely to take. Microsoft is far more massive than Google, yet they've screwed the pooch more than once. For all the times risk has paid off for Apple, there are still times where they've had pie in their face. Google are newborns compared to those two. They're going to screw up. And hell, we're talking about free software here. There's R&D expenses to consider, but it's a much safer blunder than hardware.

Honestly, the blog deletion is a result of Google's increasing size. They're a big company, they attract more attention to themselves than say, Live Journal. They're essentially the middle-man in this whole RIAA/IFPI vs The World thing. While I hate the way they handled the situation, I can still understand the position they're in. They're already in hot water with copyright folk over images and text, why fight a war on yet another front if you don't have to? The real problem child is the law, specifically the DMCA. It's in desperate need of an update, as the internet of 2010 looks quite different from the internet of 1998.