Google Buzz was launched today, and people have already begun complaining about the lack of options to disable Buzz from sending you email updates. If you are a Google Buzz user, here is how you can hide updates from Google Buzz from showing up in your Gmail Inbox.

If you are a developer, you can access and develop applications using the Google Buzz API. The Buzz API provides users with an option to Syndicate Buzz updates with Activity Streams and RSS feeds including Google’s own PubSubHubbub.

Google Buzz was released earlier today, however, Yahoo has had a similar feature called Yahoo Updates for over a year now. So now Google is competing with Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo Updates in the Social Networking niche.

Google Buzz is here and it is a direct competitor to both Facebook and Twitter, if you have not yet heard about Google Buzz, it is a social networking product from Google which will directly integrate into Google products like Gmail and Google Apps.

The Google Buzz Event is live right now, we are doing some coverage here. You can watch the Google Announcement of new Social networking tools for Gmail and other Google related products, both desktop and mobile, live online at YouTube.

Google has officially announced Google Buzz, a Google Approach to sharing. This is the Google product which will take on Facebook and Twitter by allowing social sharing in Gmail and other Google products.