With the success of Google+, the company must eventually decide what to do with Buzz and Orkut--either shut them down and port their users, or risk creating a fragmented social ecosystem.READ»
The common, renegade approach of sending imperfect tech products out into the world--and having user experience guide improvements--comes under fire. READ»
As part of the proposed FTC settlement, Google is barred from "future privacy misrepresentations," and is required to participate in a comprehensive privacy program that includes 20 years of audits. READ»
Google Buzz has been surprisingly slow (meaning, it's taken a couple weeks) to reach mobile users, but now it's finally integrated with Mobile Gmail so every smartphone user can buzz their lives away.READ»
Barely two months after its launch, Google has rejiggered Buzz. The platform, which marries social networking and collaborative working--or rather, sets the two ideas on a collision course--was originally set up to automatically add ...READ»
There's plenty of buzz, good and bad, about Google's newest product, but Giovanni Calabro sees it for what it is: A revolutionary collaboration tool.READ»
You follow the same person or company on Twitter, Facebook, and Google Buzz, and every other time you see an update you get déjà vu. You think, "I've seen this before..."--and you have, because they're automatically posting the ...READ»
In 2007 Facebook rolled out Beacon, an ad system that took parts of user's Facebook data that they thought were private, and made them public. Last week, Google's Buzz did something similar. Beacon was killed by public revolt--and a ...READ»
Google's new social media service Google Buzz will show up in your Gmail account this week. Here's how to customize and use Buzz--or opt out of its inbox-cluttering updates completely.
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You're waking up to an Internet a-Buzz with talk about Google's new social sharing experiment. Opinions are mixed, but mainly concern the current version of Buzz. So here's our thought experiment about its future. It's scary.Google's ...READ»
Google, like someone arriving late to a party already drunk and boisterous but with a lot of party favors, is trying to grab some of that Web2.0 social glimmer by polishing up Gmail with Google Buzz. The app, which is integrated ...READ»
