[kilps]

The way for Buzz to instantly gain credibility would be for Google to take the Diaspora route and open it up as a decentralised platform.

What I've found interesting is that part of what seems to be making Buzz more engaging is how it is tied to your real name (assuming that is what you use for Gmail) - but at the same time that has been part of what has made me hesitant to fully adopting it.

[avar]

That's what they seemed to be promising with Wave initially, i.e. to make a decentralized and federated protocol. But Buzz doesn't use wave ...

[Tichy]

The real name policy sucks if you haven't been able to secure a nice email address on gmail.