Google’s former try on a social network, Buzz, has gone through a slow,
painful death behind closed doors, and it seems as if Google has finally decided to officially pull the plug on the service. After being unavailable to the general public for a year, Google announced on Saturday that all Google Buzz posts will be moved to Google Drive.
Back in February 2010, Google launched Buzz,
perhaps a precursor to Google+, and was a service that the company
hoped would bring you the news and keep the chatter to a minimum.
More than a year later, Google Buzz was shuttered
and company Vice President of Product Bradley Horowitz said at the time
that the lessons that Google learned from the products short existence
would be used in other services like Google+.
Google says that it will transition all user data from Buzz over to
Google Drive till July 17th — none of which will count
against a user’s storage limit. The first set of files are private and
contain a snapshot of the public and private Buzz posts that a user
authored.
The second set of files will be a user’s public posts on Buzz and be
viewable to anyone with access to the link. Google says that these posts
could appear in search results and in their Google Profile, if it’s
linked to the Buzz posts.
Comments made on Buzz posts in the past will be saved to the author’s
files and not yours. Authors are the only ones that can change the
sharing settings of those files — Google emphasizes that should the
author make their posts public and you have a comment on there, you have
no control over its appearance. The company’s response to any reaction:
delete your Buzz content now if you don’t want that to happen.
Google says all Buzz files will be treated “the same as any other
Drive file”, meaning that they can be downloaded, updated, or deleted.
If you’re interested in finding out what you’ve shared or commented on, you can do so by going to your Google profile page.
Source :- www.thenextweb.com, www.makeuseof.com, Google News, Google Drive Blog.
May 27, 2013
