I’m trying to play with google buzz for a few days, but the accessibility of this service isn’t as good as it should be. As I’m blind, it’s not so easy for me to keep the overview, and I often can’t find the buttons I need. But I found a workaround for this: use your google dashboard (you can find this on your google account page) for editing the connected sites and followers.

Hope Google will it make possible to integrate the youtube, orkut, twitter … profiles into one single google profile, so that friend and contacts can be managed from one single place.

I already know, Chris, that you don’t know much about Google’s plans concerning the accessibility issue, but I hope Google will work on this in the future.

Best,
Katty

Thanks for your super heads up as usual. I have been playing with “Buzz” for a few days now and I seems to be working well for me. at least I seem to have more control over what i receive and dont want other to see which is good.

While it’s kinda scary to turn all my online integration over to the “G”, I like the GMail connection.

Plus, if I never have to visit or use Facebook, I won’t be disappointed. Screw Zuck.

So far what I’m seeing here on Buzz is extended, in-depth conversations, especially with guys like Darren Rowse, Chris Brogan, Scoble, Danny Sullivan. Looks like it extends the conversation on blog comments, and spreads your blog a bit wider.

Also, good call on Mashable… I dumped them from my Reader awile ago… too much. Figure if they shoot something out good, I’ll catch it in my Alerts.

Sure will be interesting to see where Buzz heads aftwer the initial Buzz dies down…

Walt

I will be back to visit the comments here.

I was glad to see you and Jack as one of the first freinds I saw in Google Buzz.

Two things come to mind here….

First of all, if you are seeing people in Buzz that you don’t want to see, unfollow them or if you really want to get rid of them, delete them from you Google Contacts.

Second, if you hate Buzz updates in Gmail, set a filter to automatically delete the emails on sight. It is under “More actions” and then select “Filter messages like these…”

Works just fine.

However if I have commented on a Buzz item then I am interested enough to follow that thread and I WANT to get those updates.

What do you think about those solutions Val?

I’m not sure I’ll keep it or turn it off yet.

Val

I agree the expanding and collapsing of Google Buzz posts can be disorienting but I still run a 19 inch monitor as my main viewing source.

In these days of widescreen laptops the “Above the fold” page area is much less.

So I can see the reason for this and I can also see that this is disorienting for many.

I am about to buy an old 6:9 Vista lappy and reformat it to Ubuntu just for that reason. I hate widescreen lappys for real document work.

Good to hear from you again as always Doug!