Maybe I’d like Google Buzz more if my inbox wasn’t full of emails from myself. Or was able to see newer posts show up first, as opposed to the posts with the most recent comments. There are a lot of gripes early on, but at the end of the day, Google Buzz can be a really great tool.
That said, here are the top 3 things I’d change about Google Buzz:
- New Buzz items float to the top. Matt Cutts, Google’s webspam ninja and all-around Google evangelist, had a rather benign Hello World Buzz he posted on February 11. People are still responding to it as we speak. It’s been at the top – or near the top – since he clicked the post button.
- Slightly better privacy options. I applaud Google for responding so quickly to security concerns with Buzz; however, I still think they need to do more. I’m being followed by an army of Asian spammers. I block ‘em, natch. But still. Please, Google, make it a little more difficult for people to follow me that aren’t one of my regular Gmail contacts.
- iPhone/Android/Blackberry App. This is a no-brainer. You want people to check in to locations, a la Foursquare and Yelp? Well, make it easy for them, because pulling up the HTML 5-based Buzz site is a major Buzzkill.
Honorable mention: allowing users to attach more than one image or link to a reply. Hot damn, that’s annoying.
What would you change about Buzz if you were king for a day?
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