April 26, 2010 by Andre
Google Buzz launched earlier this year to compete with Facebook and Twitter in a social networking war that, lets face it, they have never really had a chance of winning. As seemed fairly inevitable at the time Google Buzz is still some way behind the main two in terms of users but Google have given themselves a boost by integrating their popular Google Maps service with their new social networking platform.
Google Buzz went live in February of this year and has been met with much criticism as it does not appear to offer anything innovative or different from its rivals apart from its integration with G-mail, until now.
Google will hope that the new map feature changes the criticism into praise as it will also be made available to mobile phone users of Buzz.
It sounds as thought the integration between Maps and Buzz will work very well alongside Twitter posts and mobile uploads which will place the user at the location they were in when they submitted any updates or posts whilst logged into the service.
The service is primarily aimed at adding a new dimension to status updates as they will show other users your exact global location along with your status update, if that is something that at all appeals to you.
The user will also be able to go into Google maps, perform a location search (probably of the location that they are at or are planning to visit) and tick ‘Buzz’. This will then show that user who else is at that particular location.
Although it does sound like a unique service that will surely have its users it is also bound to have complaints from people seeking web privacy as the question will surely be asked: who wants everyone to know exactly where they are at all times? Google will hope that everyone does.
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