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June 15, 2010

Tuesday, June 15, 2010 9:18 AM/EST

Twitter Outages, Second Look Could Push People to Google Buzz

How does Google boost Buzz usage? Create a new social graph. There's no reason to believe Buzz can't become the new go-to Web service for messages and conversations. Especially when Twitter goes down so much.

May 28, 2010

Friday, May 28, 2010 1:52 PM/EST

Google Buzz Gets Reshare, Works on BlackBerry, Nokia S60, Windows

Google May 27 launched a reshare link, which lets users blast out interesting buzz with two clicks instead copying and pasting it. Google also boosted its Buzz for Mobile app by supporting BlackBerry, Nokia S60, Windows Mobile and pre-Android 2.0 smartphones.

May 20, 2010

Thursday, May 20, 2010 9:12 AM/EST

Google Launches Buzz API as Answer to Facebook Connect

Google May 19 launched its promised Google Buzz API at Google I/O, and a number of applications are already integrating with the service, including social apps Seesmic and Boxee. If developers build the stuff, will people use it? I'm not sure. This isn't exactly Facebook Connect.

May 6, 2010

Thursday, May 06, 2010 9:30 AM/EST

UC-Davis Shuns Gmail over Google Buzz Privacy Gaffe

Update: The University of California-Davis ended its evaluation of Gmail as the official e-mail program for its 30,000 faculty and staff members over the recent Google Buzz privacy flap. The last thing Google needs right now is organizations choosing Office 2010 because of the Buzz privacy issue.

April 14, 2010

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 12:01 AM/EST

Google Buzz Button Comes for Publishers

Google has added a Google Buzz button, proving that it has gotten serious about letting publishers share Buzz users' links to interesting news items and blog posts with other Buzz users.

April 5, 2010

Monday, April 05, 2010 10:46 AM/EST

Google Buzz Gets Confirmation Page, Tweaks Comment Collapsing

Google April 5 is offering a confirmation page for existing users of the Google Buzz social service, and has improved its comment collapsing features. What we're learning is that Google is exceptionally responsive to users' needs and can iterate really fast when it needs to. With Google Buzz, Google needed to move fast.

April 2, 2010

Friday, April 02, 2010 10:38 AM/EST

Ex-Googler Falls Prey to Wonderful Privacy Flaw of Google Buzz

Andrew McLaughlin, formerly Google's top lobbyist and currently the deputy CTO in the White House, where he advises President Barack Obama on Internet policy, apparently was aghast to find his contacts exposed by Google Buzz. The result was a horse pucky storm of rumor and conspiracy theory.

March 30, 2010

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 12:12 PM/EST

How Google Buzz Has Been Drowned Out by Twitter

New research from Chitika and evidence from Google's own insights tool show that Google Buzz, the controversial social messaging application, has quieted down since its Feb. 9 launch and subsequent privacy brouhaha.

March 12, 2010

Friday, March 12, 2010 7:30 AM/EST

Google Buzz Getting More Inbox Management Features

Updated: The Google Buzz team March 11 said it is working on comments management and a new mute control for the social networking application in Gmail. What else would you like to see added to or subtracted from Buzz?

February 22, 2010

Monday, February 22, 2010 1:26 PM/EST

Privacy Snafus Threaten to Make Google Buzz Beacon 2

Google Buzz users won't be happy until they have total, granular control over their privacy; they have a fundamental right to it. So keep complaining and telling Google what you don't like. All of this brings back memories of Beacon, that disastrous Facebook advertising effort that worked great until people found it revealed things about them they had no desire to share with certain people (like gift purchases).

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