New social service has mobility from day one.
Last night, Google announced a new social service called Google Buzz, designed to help people share status updates, links, photos and videos from within Gmail.
However, there's a mobile angle too. Google Buzz is getting its own web app for iPhone and Android, while also being integrated into the Google Maps mobile app.
"Rather than simply creating a mobile version of Buzz, we decided to take advantage of the unique features of a mobile device - in particular, location," says the blog post announcing the news.
"Your location brings valuable context to the information you share."
The Google Buzz for mobile web app lets users track updates from the people they're 'following' (shades of Twitter here), or see the latest updates from the wider Buzz community near their current location.
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The latter part is the key feature for the Buzz aspects on Google Maps for mobile, which also introduces 'Place Pages' for locations, to gather recent buzz updates. Which is a bit Foursquare.
"With Buzz for mobile, we hope you can start interesting conversations about places and be more spontaneous when you are out and about," continues the blog post.
It's going to be fascinating seeing how this service develops. A video demo is embedded below:
