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Google is launching their new social web app called Buzz today! Have you been paying attention to the Google Buzz press conference? Have you had a chance to use it yet? What do you think?

Personally, I think it's quite interesting and it's a natural convergence with everything they've been working on. My only worry is that it will add more noise to my already crowded inbox. That said, I'm excited to see their implementation and how it will all work.

Edit: Looks like it's live: http://www.google.com/buzz

I think it's a very interesting take on social. I like the getting the noise out and getting things done philosophies they've taken on. The location based stuff is really nice too.

This looks pretty cool (much better than Wave has turned out so far). I just hope there's an option to keep all replies out of the inbox and in the buzz-box, as it were.

It's pretty unusual for Google to roll something this major out into GMail so quickly, isn't it?

I'm hoping I'll evetually be able to replace Facebook.with something like this.

I've got a couple problems with it.

1. The people I email the most are not people who use Facebook, Twitter or Foursquare (or others). They don't see the need for it. Conversely the people I connect with most through social media with almost never send me email. Buzz is trying to leverage the people I connect with who are least likely to use it.

2. I like keeping separate levels of information in different social networks. Twitter is for minutae, links, stuff I'm comfortable with being fully public. Facebook is for friends/people I trust. Foursquare is for location. I'm not quite ready to combine all of that data and worried about security.

I never signed up for facebook, I have never tweeted once, I just learned of four square in fact the only social media app I really have used so far is yelp on my iphone (if you even consider that a social network) but I think I will give google buzz a try if not just for the reason of it being in my inbox and already linked to the people I talk to.

100s of Buzz users are showing up on my Android Google Maps already.

I have to say, it's getting kind of annoying. The mute function doesn't appear to work properly, so some of these Buzz threads that are getting tons of replies keep reappearing at the top of my Buzz feed.

Google has some work to do!

I do like the integration with Google Reader, which I use a lot both on my iPhone and my Mac. Sharing articles there is a lot more painless than sharing onto twitter or facebook.

It really does look like they tried to re-create FriendFeed here.

Do you think they will open the API for desktop standalone clients like Tweetie or Twitteriffic? I'd like to use Google Buzz, but I don't use the gmail web interface, so I can't really justify using Google Buzz.

One thing is clear. Don't follow Robert Scoble. Anything he posts gets a ton of comments so it's always pinned to the top of of your buzz feed.

At the moment everything on buzz is meta-buzz discussion. I'm going to wait a week on this.

I really love Buzz, cause it make my connected.