Tag: GOOGLE BUZZ

Google and the FTC have just announced that they've reached a settlement in the FTC's investigation of Google's privacy violations committed during the rollout of Google Buzz, the company's social network built inside of Gmail. One of the reasons Buzz never quite took off may have been the enormous backlash surrounding its launch, and Google's handling of Gmail users' privacy. The FTC claims ...

Seesmic has updated its Android app with much-improved Facebook support. Users can now add multiple Facebook accounts, and post, comment, and like items on walls and Facebook pages they administer. Homescreen widgets have also been added, and all Seesmic's social networks are supported -- Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, and Salesforce Chatter. Support for Google's goo.gl URL shortener has been ...

Mflow is a new music discovery app I came across in the Chrome Web Store -- though as with many "apps" there, it was little more than a bookmark with a pretty icon. In truth, the mflow (yes, it's all lower case...) beta works in any browser. Sign yourself up, or simply log in with your Facebook account and choose a username. After that, it's all about searching, following, and "flow"-ing. When ...

Seesmic for Android has received an update today which bumps the app to version 1.5. The social networking client has added beta support for Salesforce's Chatter service, which you can now use from Seesmic alongside Twitter and Google Buzz. The Salesforce Chatter integration lets you read your Chatter feed, comment, view groups, profiles (and you can call, email or see a person's address with one ...

If you've ever used Facebook or Twitter, you're already familiar with Google Buzz's latest feature: reshare. Resharing is the equivalent of sharing in Facebook or retweeting in Twitter. It quickly shares someone else's post in your stream, with your commentary added and a link back to the original source. It's not so much that reshare is a cool new feature, just Google playing the inevitable ...

When Google debuted its social network, Google Buzz, there was an immediate backlash against confusing privacy settings and an auto-add feature that ended up exposing people's profiles to undesirables. Google responded quickly by killing auto-add and making it easier to hide profile info, but the general impression that Buzz is a bit of a privacy nightmare still lingers. TheNextWeb reports that ...

It was only a matter of time before Google delivered a souped-up version of its new social product, Buzz, to its mobile OS, Android. A slick Buzz widget has just launched for Android phones, and it should thoroughly satisfy Buzz junkies (assuming there are any, that is). The widget lets you post and geotag new buzz, and it features background uploading, so you don't have to wait for it to ...

Sure, there may be all sorts of ways to minimize the spamminess of Google Buzz -- I walked through some of them on this blog a few days ago -- but now there's a fast way to fully disable it. You can delete your profile, remove all the people you follow, disconnect all your other profiles (like Reader), and never see Buzz again. All you have to do is find that little "turn Buzz off" link at the ...

Google's been bragging about how many users are on its new Google Buzz service, but a lot of those people want to turn Buzz off. We're already discovering major privacy loopholes in Buzz (okay, the whole thing feels like a privacy loophole) like people's private, backup email addresses being exposed through @replies, and everyone being able to see who you follow. For the Buzz-haters out ...

This morning, Google finally pulled back the curtain on its rumored social networking product. It's called Google Buzz, and it's being billed as "a Google approach to sharing," in the same way Gmail was "a Google approach to email." In the 15-minute demo of Buzz, Google hit on 5 key features, plus an overview of the mobile version of Buzz. Google Buzz will begin rolling out to the general ...