This morning I’ve been welcomed to the new Gmail gadget, Google Buzz.
Here are some of the first impressions I got.
If I had to explain in in three words I’d say it is a “Twitter on Steroids”

What I like:

• The integration of the social networking features into mail messages. You can reply to a message you receive in buzz straight from the email that tells you that you’ve just received a message (notification).  This is cowabonga!
• The ability to edit your status

What I don’t like:

• The dropdown menu where you select the privacy features is a bad copy of Facebook‘s dropdown with less features
• I believe (yet to be tested) that your status goes immediately into search. WTF Google, at least warn me! most users don’t do the relationship public = indexed = searchable.
• They have very long URL as a reference for statuses.
• I think having Buzz(n) where n>1 below my Inbox is annoying because n++ occurs also for comments on statuses you don’t click “Like”. Google WTF!

What I think they should be doing next:

• Integrate it with RSS, build an app to cross-post on twitter and Facebook.
• Phase in Buzz settings in the Gmail settings
• Provide you with more extensive information and control with regard to privacy