Showing posts with label Google Buzz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google Buzz. Show all posts

Friday, April 2, 2010

Comment collapsing for Google Buzz posts

When you tweet in twitter , there are no comments skyscraper as you can see in Google Buzz , over your buzz so to avoid comments taking away whole of the space , all the old comments automatically get collapsed but then the new comments can be found in expanded form . hence preventing buzz to discussion board to satisfactory extent

Official Gmail Blog: Improved comment collapsing for Google Buzz posts

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1. More visible option to not show followers/people you follow on your public profile

2. Ability to block anyone who starts following you

3. More clarity on which of your followers/people you follow can appear on your public profile

Official Gmail Blog: Millions of Buzz users, and improvements based on your feedback

 

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Thursday, April 1, 2010

Google Buzz: Buzz tips

 

  Here are few tips to get you start playing with

1. Format your posts. When posting in Buzz, you can format text just edit the way you want whether bold/italic/strikethrough.

2. View a summary of your own Buzz activity at www.google.com/dashboard.

The Google Dashboard  is a place where you can find how much Google know you and what all information Google store about you, not that you can even delete stuff which you don’t Google to know from their data base

3. Use an @reply to send a post directly to someone's inbox.like @Obama

If you want to make sure one of your friends sees a certain Buzz post,You can do so by typing in "@" symbol followed by the first few letters of their name, and select their email address from the list.  email address will not be visible  to others


4. Try keyboard shortcuts to fly through buzz. Turn on keyboard shortcuts from Settings, shortcuts like “i”,”k” , very useful when you mouse is not working


5. Mute posts so they don't get sent to your inbox.  If you don't want to see any more response you can always mute from the comments option drop down list by clicking  “mute this post ”

 Enjoy buzzing around

  6. Post by email. You can post buzz by emailing buzz@gmail.com   it will automatically get posted  as your buzz post

7. Prevent your boring chat status messages from being posted to Buzz.  use parenthesis in you chat status so that it don't become status of you buzz


8. Look for the yellow line to see what's new.  .

9. Link to a post.  you can also link your blog/website url to your buzz post from the comment drop drop down list.


10. Follow the Buzz team in Google Buzz. Visit buzz.Google.com/Google buzz  for more new feature and also suggest new you want to see in Google Buzz

 Official Gmail Blog: 5 Buzz tips

5 more Buzz tips: post by email, follow the Buzz team, and more

Google Buzz an analogous to Twitter is getting popularity at a faster rate as because Google is making  users of  its popular  service Gmail  to auto  use it .

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

More effective controls for buzz in Gmail

 

1) Settings to control what gets sent to your inbox



2) Explanations for why posts get sent to your inbox and an easy-to-find “Mute” link


3) you can also effectively control the who can see your buzz

These are just the first in series of features designed to help control the noise level in Google Buzz, so stay tuned for more.

So , you will always be safe and will have more control on Google Buzz , hence effective management of control and safety of online presence .

Not only Google is constantly updating its safety and control feature just in Google Buzz but also in all other Google products like Gmail  from being hacked and attempts to misuse data from your account will be indicated to you in red highlight, with information regarding when , where, what.

And if you think there is something more Google can do like add some more new features you want , you are always welcome to suggest to Google by posting your ideas here Product Ideas page.

Official Gmail Blog: Better controls for buzz in your inbox