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Will Google Buzz Change The Way We Travel?

Short answer: no. Longer answer: no, not yet. Google announced their new Google Buzz social network yesterday, and you can already get the mobile app at buzz.google.com. The big question is whether the new service will allow people to interact more easily than they already do with Facebook and Twitter. The smaller but still important question is how much this helps us find the local wifi-enabled Starbucks in a new town.

The rollout has focused on two different aspects of the new service. On one side you've got all the normal social networking and content sharing stuff. People can post content to be seen either by the public or just by their friends. You can update your status, share pictures and video, and target contacts with at-replies. If that sounds familiar, it should be. All the big social networks have those things. The true potential of Google Buzz doesn't really emerge until you get to the interesting stuff they're doing with location awareness and—presumably—local search.

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