For those of you who don’t follow the excellent Web Strategy blog written by Jeremiah Owyang from the Altimeter Group, here is a link to the matrix he has just built, comparing Google Buzz, Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. There’s lots of great stuff in this matrix, and it gives a seriously good SWOT analysis of the four platforms today.

To be fair, I was slightly surprised to see MySpace thrown into the equation as I don’t really see the platform competing with the others, but I guess you can’t really discard 57 million users in the US alone.

Talking about Google Buzz, I’ve only just started playing with it yesterday. Although I’m looking forward to see how it develops, I must say I haven’t really been bowled over by it so far. It looks to me like lots of noise that’s difficult to classify and make sense of. A bit like Google Wave, which I couldn’t get into either. Too much hype for not much susbtance after all?

The again, very few of my contacts have joined the Buzz so far so maybe I just need a few more friends to play with it?

If you happen to have missed the massive debate around Google Buzz these last few days, you can catch up here with ReadWriteWeb’s extensive coverage and analysis.