Whilst we don't subscribe to the hype around Google's new social layer for Gmail, there are plenty of tech-minded users that do, so there's now a new trick to updating your status there as well.

If you use Ping.fm to send status updates out to Twitter, Facebook and 50 other social networks, you are able to update your Buzz through Gtalk. Simply enable Gtalk as a service on your Buzz account, and add it to Ping.fm, and you can easily add posts to the new service when you update your other networks.

Quite how popular Buzz will be is anyone's guess, but with the number of social media and tech sites integrating some kind of integration, it might be slightly more successful than Wave.

[Seesmic Blog]