Love these Australian dudes.

I could get used to them.

The Borders is closing today at Phoenix Sky Harbor, so I had to do some damage in the Spanish section. I was pretty tempted by Ricky Martin's autobiography and a Dora the Explorer cookbook, but decided to go with these. Can't wait to learn what my dreams mean and how to be Brazilian sexy. Gotta practice my Spanish somehow!

This whole distinction between sharing to Google Buzz and sharing to Google+ seems silly to me, primarily because it’s currently easier to share to Buzz than it is Google+. But hardly anyone uses Buzz, right? And if you do, all it’s doing is aggregating tweets and blog posts and other shared items you’ve told Buzz to aggregate. I get that having all that junk in your streams would make it messy, which is why I think “Posts” and “Buzz” are currently separated on a user’s profile. So maybe it’s fine that all the content and feeds your proliferating into the interwebz stays separate from what you choose to hand-craft for Google+. 

But all the sharing and commenting functionality that’s supposed to happen in Gmail with your contacts as a part of Buzz (that I don’t know if anyone is actually using) should be integrated with Google+. Liking should become +1-ing. Your Groups should become Circles and your Circles should become Groups. And you should be able to email and chat with people in your Circles who also have you in Circles…as contacts…in Gmail. And then maybe someday we’ll get a “Share to Google+” button (not to be confused with the “+1” button).

If you watch the video introducing Buzz from February 2010, it’s prophetic of Google+ and intended for the same purpose: sharing and discovering how you choose. The only primary difference between Buzz and Google+ today that I see is Buzz’s close integration with Gmail. I’m emailing. I’m Plussing. But I’m not sharing/buzzing in Gmail. Are you? What’s your $0.02?