Google has just revealed a new product it's been working on to try and tie their webmail offering in with the kind of social sharing tens of millions of web users do everyday, dubbed; Buzz.

What it'll do is surface content that your contacts can share on the service, and allow a conversation to form around it in the confines of the Gmail layout that people are familiar with and aware of.

So a user will post a link to an image gallery on Flickr or Picasa, and it'll bring up the photos, so you and your friends can talk about within (in real-time) an email like format.

Think of it like Twitter, Facebook, Gmail and Google Wave mashed up into a social mix, with followers and likes thrown in there for good measure.
Oh, and they're also creating applications for mobile platforms (Android, Symbian, etc. but not iPhone at the moment) which brings location-awareness into the fray as well.

We'll bring you a hands on when they push it out soon.

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