Andrew Maxwell

If you use Google Buzz right now you will notice that there is no Star feature like there is in Gmail or a way to save a post to read later. Well I found a simple solution using Evernote.

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I worked out some basic Buzz Etiquette yesterday. If you have any other suggestions please add it to the comments below.

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Over the past few years that I have been doing freelance work I have come across a handful of tools which allow me to create wireframes,  flow diagrams and general project plans. Most of these tools are free, but tend to give you a limited number of features. April 12th 2010 this has all changed.

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Since Buzz came out 2 months ago they have been trying to make Buzz the tool that their users want.

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The past few weeks I have been using Google Buzz as my main social media outlet, trying to find new ways to help improve the service along the way. Currently the main features I see in Google Buzz are: post status updates/Buzz posts, share website/blog updates, RSS feeds from Google Reader, Twitter updates, images and video from Picasa, Flickr and YouTube. This is a limited selection of content that Google chose to include with the launch of Buzz, however I see this area being the best place for Google Buzz to grow. If Google Buzz allowed other sites and tools to integrate into your Buzz stream it would allow all of your favorite sites and tools to become more social.

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I started using Google Buzz about a month ago and from the very beginning I wanted to share articles with other readers. Sometimes the articles I wanted to share would only show up in my Buzz stream. Google Buzz is still new so there is no standard way to repost an article, since there is no standard way I talked with a few Buzz users about reposting etiquette.

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Buzz, Buzz, Buzz.

That’s right, I have been stung by the Google Buzz and it has now turned into my main social media platform.

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Reading the article “Rely heavily on Google Analytics? You won’t like this.” got me to really think. I understand that Google is trying to do the right thing for all users, even the paranoid ones, but this seems to be sort of an issue for anyone who is actually trying to improve their website for those exact users.

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With the rise of social media and live content comes to the rise of what I like to call “Social Media Anxiety”. I personally read blogs, websites and Twitter each and everyday. Some days I can read well over 100 blog posts and thousands of Twitter posts when there is a new web tool, international issue, strong political change or a tech gadget. This made me think about how the rise of information and the rise of stress and how they happen to be correlated with each other.

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Website usability testing is something that should be done by any major web development company, or freelancer.

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