The Universe...

After using Google Buzz for several days, I am lukewarm towards its' usefulness at this point. Several key things are lacking or need correcting before it is worthy of constant attention/distraction; 1. the fact that your contacts and their information are exposed to those you follow or follow you, unless you go through several steps (see: http://ow.ly/16L7U ), 2. the fact that if a post receives a great deal of comments they aren't collapsed and there is no way of manually collapsing them, and so on...

With that, there is one feature that Buzz has which you might be interested in. If you use Twitter and have always envied those that are "verified" due to some special celebrity or importance to the world status, Google Buzz can make you feel as important as those select few on Twitter. Here's how it works.