Google's Last Chance in the Social Web War, Buzz for Gmail

Google hasn’t had much luck with the social web. Somehow, its approach so far has failed to provide any meaningful products. But social is the future, at least that’s how it looks right now, and, with Facebook becoming stronger every day, Google is worried. After so many misses, it now hopes to score a hit, and is launching Google Buzz, which we got wind of earlier today, a sort of FriendFeed for Gmail with a few Google twists.

The way Google sees it, the social web today is like… (read more)