Buzz Counter widget

buzzcounter.net has come up with a widget that can be added to your website / blog. The process is pretty simple.

Just give your user name and generate the widget.

Very cool!

Things you should know about Google Buzz

With google buzz, you can connect to those in your gmail contact list. Simply put, When post something in public, it will NOT be visible to general public, but only to your followers.

To turn of google buzz, look out for this link 'turn off buzz' on the bottom of your gmail window. click this once and you are done.

To hide details on whom you follow and who follows you, edit profile and uncheck the box as shown in the below image.

To make selective posting, group your followers appropriately and make your posts, private.

When you posting something personal, you can make it visible only to your family and friends.

Google Buzz or Twitter?

Twitter is the next best thing since paneer butter masala. I agree. But there are limitations in twitter that we all tend to forget. I'll just try to explain how Buzz fares better than Twitter.

I Assume you are using twitter for more than a year. The possibilities are,

• You stumbled on Twitter a year ago. Created an account with a handle that friends from your other soc.networks might recognize you.
• After the customary 'Trying Twitter' , you went to the silent mode for a period ranging from 15 - 150 days only to be woken up by the buzz created around twitter.
• After using the password reminder service, You resumed, searched for friends, friends of friends (FOF), started following and got followed.
• Now you have a follower base of 500 which is a mix of close friends, FOFs, new acquaintances, celebs (rarely), family, and business contacts.
• After some time, you realize that your tweeting frequency has taken a sharp dip or most of the time, you think twice before you tweet.

Wonder why?

By design , twitter allows you to have one account per mail id, so you decided to follow every one you know - family, friends & business contacts with you twitter a/c created with your primary mail id. Though there are applications that let you manage multiple twitter accounts, you realized thatits a cumbersome process. Hence, the items you tweet, the links you post, the videos you link and tone should appeal to this heterogenous mixture of your follower base.

A discount coupon that you offer to a select customers from your follower base makes no sense to your family Or A tweet on your personal crisis is the last thing a potential client wants to hear from you.

But there is no way you can decide on who ( or which set of your followers ) can see which of your tweet. But with google buzz, you can.

Benefits of Buzz over Twitter.

• No application needs to be installed and is available in gmail window.
• You instantly follow all of your gmail contacts, meaning which you are instantly followed by all your buzz enabled gmail contacts ( where as in twitter, you need to send an invite, persuade them to start an account if they dont have one and make them follow you)
• Create separate groups of your followers in order to post messages selectively.
• Because it is from google stable.

Buzz can do wonders for Small & Medium enterprises, a bus twitter had missed.