Google Plus vs Buzz. Now that we have Plus and nobody's reading Buzz any more, there's nobody to get upset when you connect external sites into your Buzz stream.

So I'm seriously thinking of connecting as much as I possibly can to Buzz so that the Buzz Posts page on my Google Profile becomes an aggregation of everything I post everywhere else. Then it becomes like my Friendfeed profile page, and people can add further comments there if they want. First of course, I'll have to disconnect the various things I put in place to copy Buzz outwards to Twitter and Facebook to avoid loops.

If I go ahead and do this, the few people who followed me on Buzz and still read it will probably disconnect. But this is not about taking my now big stream and pushing it to people. It's about making it available if people want to look.

As I think about this, and the parallels between Buzz and Plus, it feels like Google could have rolled the interesting bits of Plus such as Circles, Notifications, Sparks, and so on out as Buzz enhancements rather than a whole new system. Creating a whole new application seems like a hard way to deal with Buzz's bad press. You have to hope that the developers did a lot of cut and paste. What's a bit strange is that a lot of the good usability features in Buzz such as the keyboard shortcuts or the comments/likes tabs and the Atom feeds didn't just get copied over as well.46 Trinity Rd, Ware, Hertfordshire SG12 7