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Please Rob Me Makes Foursquare Super Useful For Burglars
Location-based services are all the rage right now. Even everyone seems to agree that the controversial Google Buzz did at least one thing right in adding a location element to its mobile site. But as great as these…
February 17 2010, 7:17pm | Comments
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Google Buzz Abandons Auto-Following Amid Privacy Concerns
As we noted this morning, Google isn’t wasting any time in responding to user criticism about Buzz. Now they’ve rolled out another set of changes to further address Buzz’s privacy issues. The biggest change involves the automatic follow…
February 14 2010, 1:44am | Comments
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Google Buzz Privacy Update Has Users Seeing Stars (Instead Of Your Friend’s Private Email Address)
Google Buzz launched with more than its fair share of privacy issues, leading to a significant backlash from some users. Fortunately the Buzz team is fixing these issues at a brisk pace. Today, they’ve rolled out a fix…
February 13 2010, 7:43pm | Comments
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Watch Out Who You Reply To On Google Buzz, You Might Be Exposing Their Email Address
The danger in creating an instant social network around email contacts, as Google Buzz does with Gmail, is that the boundaries between what is private and what is public are not always clear. One issue raised earlier today…
February 12 2010, 6:31am | Comments
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2 Days Of Buzz: 9 Million Posts And Comments. 200 Posts Per Minute From Mobile. And Security Fixes.
Just two days in and Google is already sharing some Google Buzz stats and improvements. Notably, the company says that there are already “tens of million of people” checking out Buzz, and that 9 million posts and comments…
February 12 2010, 1:21am | Comments
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Brands Wasting No Time With Google Buzz. This Could Get Annoying.
When it came to Facebook and Twitter, it took brands a while to figure out how to take advantage of the social networks. With Foursquare, they have been much faster. But now with Google Buzz, they’re beating plenty…
February 10 2010, 10:30pm | Comments
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“Busy people don’t want another social network, what they want is the convenience of aggregation. We’ve done that. Hotmail customers have benefitted from Microsoft working with Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and 75 other partners since 2008.” – Microsoft statement…
February 9 2010, 8:20pm | Comments
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Yahoo Not Pleased With Google Buzz’s Buzz
Google officially unveiled Buzz, their major step into social statuses through Gmail today at an event held at 10 AM PT. Within the hour, Yahoo PR was set in motion to let everyone know that they actually did…
February 9 2010, 8:18pm | Comments
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Sergey Brin Used Google Buzz To Write His NYT Op-Ed On Google Books
During the Q&A session today following the Google Buzz event, Google co-founder Sergey Brin revealed something both humorous and interesting. When asked a question about practical uses for Google Buzz, Brin noted that he actually used the service…
February 9 2010, 7:54pm | Comments
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