6 Improvements in Google Buzz Since It’s Launch

Feb 14, 2010 by Shivendu Madhava

We all know Google has released Google Buzz a social networking platform which can be used by every gmail user.Since launch of Google Buzz folks at google have made few improvements in buzz, here are six improvements made in buzz after it’s launch.

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

If you don’t want to share the lists of people who are following you and people you are following publicly on your profile, you can always opt out during the profile set-up when you first use Buzz or at any time from the edit profile page.
2. Ability to block anyone who starts following you

Now it’s easier to block anyone, by adding “Block” links to the list of people following you. Previously, you were only able to block people from following you after they had created a public profile. Now, you can block anyone, regardless of whether or not they’ve already created profiles for themselves.
3. More clarity on which of your followers/people you follow can appear on your public profile

Initially, Buzz showed you a list of all the people who would be following you once they created a public profile. However, only those contacts who had already created a public profile would show up on your public follower list. Now it’s clearer by explicitly distinguishing which of your followers have public profiles and will show in your public list of followers. With this change you’ll be able to see who is on the public list of followers that everyone else sees.
4. “Follow selected people and start using Buzz” button with auto-suggest model

Instead of an auto-follow model in which Buzz automatically sets you up to follow the people you email and chat with most, Buzz is moving to an auto-suggest model. You won’t be set up to follow anyone until you have reviewed the suggestions and clicked “Follow selected people and start using Buzz.”
5. Buzz will no longer connect your public Picasa Web Albums and Google Reader shared items automatically

Buzz only automatically connected content that was already public, so if you had previously shared photos in an “Unlisted” album or set your Google Reader shared items as “Protected,” no one except the people you’d explicitly allowed to see your stuff has been able to see it.

6. Added a Buzz tab in Gmail Settings

From there, you’ll be able to hide Buzz from Gmail or disable it completely. In addition, there will be a link to these settings from the initial start-up page so you can easily decide from the get go that you don’t want to use Buzz at all.
Above are the six Improvements made by folks at google since it’s launch.