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Google Buzz With Location Support Now Available On BlackBerry Through Your Browser

by Bla1ze on 28 May 2010 08:31 AM
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Google Buzz With Location Support Now Available On BlackBerry Through Your Browser

I'm not sure how many of you all out there are Google Buzz users. Personally, I checked it out for about 20 mins when it was first released and then spent the next 2 hours trying to figure out how to disable it on my Google account. In any case, Google had promised that Google Buzz would be available on BlackBerry one way or another and now, we have support.

Although the support doesn't come via a dedicated BlackBerry app, users of Google Buzz will be pleased to know you can now point your browser to http://buzz.google.com and be served up an XHTML version right from within.  From there, you can post and view all your Buzz content and if location services are enabled, you'll also be able to see who is buzzing around you in your area. Let us know in the comments how it works for ya, if you use Google Buzz that is.

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Posted by jrfischbach Friday, May 28, 2010 727 days ago

For those who didn't disable it, if you click on your 'Messages' icon it leaves a e-mail message from Buzz that doesn't show up as a new message with your regular mail. I was deleting a whole slew of mail and found them.

 
 
Posted by sk8er_tor Friday, May 28, 2010 727 days ago

Google Buzz has been in the Google Maps app for some time now. I don't really use it so maybe there were features missing and this is what the browser version is for?

 
 
Posted by webmastir Friday, May 28, 2010 727 days ago

wonder how this experience differs from the google buzz layer in google maps =/

 
 
Posted by JamesR987 Friday, May 28, 2010 727 days ago

The location feature doesn't seem to work on my Bold 9000 (ATT). I have enabled to java script location thing but to no avail.

When it loads at the bottom of the screen are links to pick between mobile, basic html, and desktop. The basic html what was selected initially. I tried the mobile, but it rendered a white screen with scroll bars, not very usefull. I had to go back to the basic html.

Has anyone been able to get the location feature to work on a Bold 9000? It would be cool to have the buzz nearby work.

 
 
Posted by qwerty69 Friday, May 28, 2010 727 days ago

The Location isn't working for me neither on a AT&T 9700. Everything is enabled, but it doesn't work

 
 
Posted by dylanmail Friday, May 28, 2010 727 days ago

I tried enabling "JavaScript Location Support" on my Storm 9530's browser, then refreshed the Google Buzz page, but it kept saying "Determining your location... please wait" without anything happening. My browser configuration was on "BlackBerry", and I tried setting it to "Firefox" and "Internet Explorer" but still was unable to get the location services to work. I get good cell and GPS signals where I'm at so I don't think that's the problem. I don't really use Google Buzz but just wanted to test this feature.

 
 
Posted by th3gh05t Friday, May 28, 2010 727 days ago

Make sure that you have your browser identification set to "Blackberry" or it won't work. :)

 
 
Posted by Deathcommand Friday, May 28, 2010 727 days ago

Location Is working.

 
 
Posted by redwanhuq Monday, May 31, 2010 724 days ago

Doesn't work for me even after enabling JavaScript and Location Support. It asks me if I want to share my location with the page and I choose OK. Just hangs on the screen that determines location.