Google Buzz
Google Buzz – More Issues and Concerns
Feb 21st
Blogger Umair Haque from the Harvard Business Review guest edition gives his take on Google Buzz. His insight? It has issues. He points out some of the things we’ve covered here including privacy concerns, difficulty navigating the UI, the ease of making mistakes and the need to ‘follow instructions’, and makes some good comparisons to some of the Microsoft mistakes of the past.
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Buzz Privacy Settings Updated – Again
Feb 13th
Google Buzz has rolled out new changes and a bug fix that was allowing users to automatically and easily access private email addresses of other users using the @reply system. Now, Techcrunch.com reports, Buzz is displaying a series of asterisks rather than the email address. The original bug was one of many privacy concerns that caused a massive backlash in the tech community and in general concerning the way Google Buzz handled email addresses... Continue Reading