Instead of using the Nexus One User Agent you can also use the iPhone’s;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nMozilla\/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit\/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version\/4.0 Mobile\/7A400 Safari\/528.16<\/p>\n
I’m not sure which User Agent I prefer.\u00a0 With the Nexus One User Agent\u00a0 Buzz fit the screen better but the little Buzz bubbles didn’t appear on the map. With the iPhone User-Agent, the bubbles appeared but there was some text overlapping and a blank space at the bottom of the screen in the map view (visible in the screenshot above).<\/p>\n
Buzz builds upon Google’s other recent experiments in the location and the social space; Latitude<\/strong> and Wave<\/strong>, neither of which seem to have much adoption.\u00a0 But Buz does much more than Latitude and is more generally available than Wave, which is still invite only and limited to the iPhone and Android on mobile.\u00a0 It’s also nice to see that Google included Symbian this time around.\u00a0 Restricting buzz.google.com to just a few browsers is dumb though<\/strong>. That just annoys the early adopter geeks who are most likely to actually use Buzz.\u00a0 I understand that Buzz hasn’t been tested with other browsers and might not work properly or at all with unsupported ones.\u00a0 But instead of locking the door, the smart thing to do who be to warn visitors\u00a0 with unsupported browsers that things might not work.\u00a0 Buzz actually works quite well with N900 MicroB and in desktop Firefox and Safari when you change their user agents to the iPhone one.<\/p>\nIs Buzz the next Facebook or Twitter?\u00a0 It could be but that will take time and depends to a large extent on how willing people are to share more information with Google. Personally I think Buzz is too noisy and makes it too easy to inadvertently share one’s exact location.\u00a0 To win trust and make Buzz more usable, I think Google needs to improve filtering, add finer grained privacy and sharing options and make the default be to NOT share one’s location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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