Google Buzz Launches Its Own Official “Follow” and “Rebuzz” Buttons

by Hieu Martin on July 25, 2010

Google Buzz has taken a page out of Tweetmeme’s book and launched its own tools to make sharing posts and following users easier.

We’re one of a fortunate few who have been privy to testing the new tools and while nothing fancy, they do the job as expected and make sharing into Buzz and following users, easy as pie.

A number of sharing platforms, including ShareThis , Meebo, Shareholic, AddThis and AddtoAny have also incorporated the Google Buzz button into their sharing functionality. Google’s way of making sure you have absolutely no excuses to not be sharing into the service.

To add a buzz sharing button on your site go to buzz.google.com/stuff, configure your buttons with a couple clicks and copy a few lines of JavaScript. You can see an example of this button in the sidebar of this post. Expect a wordpress plugin from someone sooner or later.

To add a “follow me” on Google Buzz button you can find full instructions for that at buzz.google.com/stuff too. An example you can see here, purely for reference purposes but by all means click this button and follow CafeBlogger:

Follow on Buzz

These are small steps in the development of Buzz but steps forward they are. If you ask me, there are a number of other features I’d like to have seen first but this is the new and improved social Google, surely its only a matter of time.

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{ 10 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Costin Lucian July 25, 2010 at 4:38 pm

it’s about time for Googlebuzz

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2 blinkky July 25, 2010 at 7:09 pm

That’s another great features =)

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3 FunFollow July 25, 2010 at 10:06 pm

Another great button, I wonder if you can do the same as with tweetmeme and set up an ‘auto tweet’ when you make a post on your blog?

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4 Julian July 26, 2010 at 4:23 am

wow
ReBuzz just like ReTweet
i wonder when FaceBook launches ReShare :-)

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5 Tech Maish July 26, 2010 at 6:08 am

Good to see that google has launched the follow and rebuzz button.

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6 sqlsteps July 26, 2010 at 8:46 am

it’s good to see goggles new features and i know it would be interesting.

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7 scrum project management July 26, 2010 at 10:00 am

nice to see Buzz added to more sites- it’s not my cup of tea but it does seem to be growing in terms of usage so it’s good those users have more ways of sharing

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8 agriturismo marche July 26, 2010 at 10:59 am

Before launching this one users has to create their own Buzz buttons. This is great to see the Buzz and ReBuzz buttons launched by Google!

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9 1skyliner September 21, 2010 at 12:51 pm

nice to see Buzz added to more sites. I liked reading it

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10 HackTweaks.com September 29, 2010 at 2:29 pm

Nice! I’ve been using this gadget in my blog as well.

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