Hands on with Google’s Buzz (kill)

The idea sounds great: let people connect to those they’ve emailed using their Google account. Let them share Twitter updates, show pages they’ve visited, videos they’ve watched on YouTube and swap more online content than ever before. Yes, it’s a lovely idea, but, in practise, it has proved to be a dramatic failure. When Buzz was launched, a Google algorithm selected up to 50 contacts of each account holder to…