Comments on: Am I Losing My Geek?

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:16:27 +0000

I added ya Doug, where’s my confirmation???

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:18:34 +0000

I started using it.. If only for science! No one follows me though (douy77@gmail.com if anyone is interested) :P

By: Sian

Sian — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:21:28 +0000

I realised on reading this that I couldn’t remember how to follow people either.

http://www.google.com.au/reader/view/?tab=my#friends-manager-page

I went to “people you follow” and then at the bottom of that is something called ‘sharing settings’, although confusingly it’s got a whole lot of what I thought was buzz data there (I guess it’s just my groups and things). Either way, you can find people by email address if they’re sharing stuff publically.

By: dfv

dfv — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:21:45 +0000

Buzz was driving me mad, plus it’s ugly so I disabled it in Gmail. My life is better now.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:38:34 +0000

Thanks for the tips Michael!

I neglected to mention that all of the links from Buzz don’t seem to work for me, so that first link you gave doesn’t go anywhere. I can google it though :)

By: mjd

mjd — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:29:27 +0000

No, it’s just that Sian and I have been sharing items in Reader for a long time, so we had a head start.

First thing to do is stop Buzz spamming up your gmail with this:

http://www.google.com/buzz/mjdart/bTj4x6FbWMz/Banish-Google-Buzz-Updates-From-Your-Gmail-Inbox

I highly suspect Google will make a change soon so you won’t have to go to these lengths, but until then…

Unfortunately following people in Reader and Buzz means that you get posts duplicated. I’ve found that I can hide someone in Reader and still get their shared items in Buzz, which reduces some of the duplication.

Lastly, the Buzz team have been posting some tips and updates here:

http://www.google.com/profiles/googlebuzz#buzz