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Google Tweaks Buzz After Privacy Concerns

ABC News - 12 Feb, 2010
AP In response to privacy concerns, Google says it has tweaked Buzz, the social hub it added to its e-mail service this week. Users worried that Buzz made ...

Does Buzz prove that Google has become Microsoft?

ZDNet UK (blog) - Simon Bisson, Mary Branscombe - 12 Feb, 2010
After the initial buzz of excitement over Buzz, there's been more of a buzz about privacy worries - so much so that Google has announced that it's making ...

Google Tweaks Buzz After Privacy Concerns

PC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - 12 Feb, 2010
Several days after the launch of its Buzz social networking product, Google on Friday said it was making a few tweaks to the service in ...

Buffy's heart gets wrong kind of flutter from Google Buzz

Register - Kelly Fiveash - 12 Feb, 2010
Social tinnitus Google Buzz hasn't just upset social web mavens, it's also alarmed US actress and sometime ...

Google Buzz Has Serious Privacy Flaws

FOXNews - 12 Feb, 2010
Users of Google's new social-media utility 'Buzz' are claiming it could allow anyone to see who they have been e-mailing. Google's new Buzz feature lets you ...

Google Buzz Privacy Issues Have Real Life Implications

Washington Post - 12 Feb, 2010
Merging something designed for public broadcasting (Buzz) with something inherently private (Gmail) was just looking for trouble. ...

Google Buzz tweaked after user concerns

Telegraph.co.uk (blog) - Shane Richmond - 12 Feb, 2010
The sudden arrival of Google Buzz in Gmail users' accounts earlier this week unnerved a lot ...

Will people leave Facebook for Buzz? Fat chance

CNET - Caroline McCarthy - 12 Feb, 2010
Let's say you'd constituted a drinking game for the aftermath of Tuesday's unveiling of Google Buzz, the odd new mishmash of status ...

Google coughs to PR gaffe with privacy-lite Buzz

Register - Kelly Fiveash - 12 Feb, 2010
Google has tweaked some settings in Gmail Buzz following a huge privacy backlash against Mountain View's latest ...

Review: The full buzz on Google Buzz

Computerworld - Serdar Yegulalp - 12 Feb, 2010
Computerworld - This week Google whisked back the curtain on Buzz, its dive into the world of social-networking technology. ...

Google Buzzing to get a greater grip

Asia Times Online - Martin J Young - 12 Feb, 2010
HUA HIN, Thailand - Determined to put the rest of the globe's Internet companies out of business, Google is now stepping on the toes of ...

Google promises Buzz changes

Inquirer - David Neal - 12 Feb, 2010
JUST TWO DAYS after it launched the service Google has posted a blog post promising changes to Buzz, its social networking tool. ...

Google Buzz is criticised for lack of privacy

Inquirer - David Neal - 12 Feb, 2010
INTERNET OVERLORD Google has stirred up some controversy with the rollout of its Buzz social notworking feature. Just twenty-four hours after ...

Google Buzz gets improved privacy settings

ZDNet UK - Tom Krazit - 12 Feb, 2010
Google announced some changes to Google Buzz on Thursday after some users expressed privacy concerns about the new service. Early users of Google Buzz had ...

Google's Buzz sets internet humming

The Guardian - 12 Feb, 2010
Google Buzz: Sergey Brin at the presentation of his company's take on social networking. Photograph: Robert Galbraith/Reuters You've Googled those facts, ...

Watch Out Who You Reply To On Google Buzz, You Might Be Exposing Their Email ...

Washington Post - 12 Feb, 2010
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 ...

Google Buzz: More Social Clutter or Less?

PC Magazine - Dan Costa - 12 Feb, 2010
I don't need another social network, but I would kill for simple friend manager with some solid privacy controls. by Dan Costa Just about the only ...

2 Days Of Buzz: 9 Million Posts And Comments. 200 Posts Per Minute From Mobile ...

Washington Post - 12 Feb, 2010
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 ...

Now You Can Follow TechCrunch On Google Buzz

Washington Post - 12 Feb, 2010
Just like the rest of you, we're still getting the hang of Google Buzz, the new FriendFeed-like service that Google integrated with Gmail two days ago. ...

Google Buzz Privacy Fears Overblown

PC Magazine (blog) - 12 Feb, 2010
I'll admit I'm not as sensitive to privacy issues as a lot of security writers. I have to agree some with Sun's ex-CEO Scott McNealyâ€"a man with whom I ...

Google seeks to quell Buzz privacy outcry

Financial Times - Richard Waters - 12 Feb, 2010
Google sought on Thursday night to quell an outcry over the privacy settings in its new Buzz social networking service, ...

Google tweaks Buzz privacy settings

CNET - Tom Krazit - 12 Feb, 2010
Google now asks very explicitly if you want to share your Buzz followers with the world upon setting up an account. ...

Beating Google Buzz, 10 Tips for Facebook

PC World - David Coursey - 12 Feb, 2010
Google Buzz ruined Facebook's sixth birthday this week. Now the question has become "How to save Facebook" from Google's Buzz-bomb. ...

Buzz gets louder on social space

Economic Times - Harsimran Singh - 12 Feb, 2010
MUMBAI: We're sitting here at the Nasscom India Leadership Summit 2010 in Kalina in Mumbai, and the place shows some buzz, reflected as a thumb pin on a ...

Why Google Buzz will be a hit

CNN - Pete Cashmore - 12 Feb, 2010
Editor's note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about social media. ...

Privacy: Google Buzz (kill)?

Christian Science Monitor - Andrew Heining - 12 Feb, 2010
Many have spoken out about how Google Buzz handles users' contact lists. Here's how to stay on top of what you share. Google Buzz's hype led many to click ...

Using Google Buzz? Here's a privacy checklist

msnbc.com - Ian Paul - 12 Feb, 2010
If you've heard of Google Buzz, chances are you've also heard about some of the privacy concerns that surround it. The social media service ...

What the Buzz? Get Me Off This Crazy Thing!!!

ZDNet (blog) - Jason Perlow - 12 Feb, 2010
Google's Buzz, which adds Social Networking features to their popular GMail service, is a bit too Alpha and uncontrolled for me to participate in it right ...

Buzz off: Disabling Google Buzz

CNET - Jessica Dolcourt - 12 Feb, 2010
Updated: February 11, 2010 at 12:15 pm PT to share a new rollout that Google implemented to better manage (and block) contacts. ...

Google Buzzfail

ZDNet (blog) - Dennis Howlett - ‎Feb 11, 2010‎
Quick - how do you tell when someone's sucking too much Kool-Aid? Answer: When they take an almost entirely positive view of a technology and miss something ...

 

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