YiBi's Life|Live Log

I woke up this morning to discover that TweetDeck has changed. Slightly different interface, and now we need a TweetDeck account. Not something that I like very much. Why not allow us to sign in with our Twitter account. It’s one less account littered on the Internet. But nonetheless, I created an account. TweetDeck has integration Facebook and Twitter on one screen and it’s very convenient. I *HOPE* they will consider Google+ integration as well. Then they will be the ultimate killer, in my humble opinion.

Fired up TweetDeck in my Chrome, and saw a Tweet from @davegirouard talking about new features in Gmail. There’s now better integration with Google+ which allows filtering based on Circles.

We can now add people to our circles from Gmail. I think this will tremendously help to boost the sign up for Google+ now with everything on one screen.

On a side note. The Google+ interface is still a bit unnatural somehow. It’s not as fluid as Facebook as I feel personally. Hopefully Google+ can take off in a much bigger scale. I like the circle concept much more than the Facebook lists.

Oh, 1 more upcoming. Facebook Timeline. Watch out for this. Very interesting.

Google Buzz

Google launched Google Buzz, a social networking platform. This is cool, because I’m an avid user of Google. But I’m wondering at the same time, what’s going to happen to Google Wave? The functions seems to overlap, although Wave seems to be more cutting edge.

Right now Google Buzz is only available on Gmail. I wished they had it on Google Apps for Your Domain as well. I host my email, docs, calendars etc on Google using my own domain. Unfortunately, I can’t use Buzz with my own domain. Same goes for Wave when it was launched.

Google Buzz *IS* available on Google Apps For Your Domain! For some reason it didn’t show up in the mail interface on the PC, but it works on my IPhone. Cool! That means now I can have all my stuff on Google. Mail, Calendar, Docs, Picassa.

Find out more about Google Buzz at http://buzz.google.com

And no. No IPhone app for Google Buzz yet. Probably never.