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Google Settles With FTC Over Google Buzz

Google agreed to settle an FTC complaint that it used "deceptive tactics and violated its own privacy promises" with the launch of its social network, Google Buzz, which automatically shared information in Gmail address books.

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Facebook socializes e-mail, aims for simplicity

Facebook unveiled its e-mail strategy today, with facebook.com addresses, a conversation history that includes e-mail, social messages and SMS, and a "social inbox" that prioritizes friends and friends of friends to keep spam out of the picture.

Senh: No wonder Google disallowed Facebook from accessing personal data from GMail last week.

Why Facebook Mail Can Kill Gmail and Everyone Else

Get ready for a new invasion wave from Facebook: Mail. According to Techcrunch's sources, a full webmail client integrated with The One and Only Social Network will debut next Monday. If I were Google, Yahoo or Hotmail, I'd be very nervous.

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Google Limits Facebook Access to Gmail Contacts

Google said it will no longer allow the social network Facebook to grab information about Google users' social and professional contacts through Gmail, Google's email service.

Senh: Too little too late. Most people with GMail accounts have already imported their contacts to facebook.

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Google Profile for Wopular

Sat, 10/02/2010 - 12:49pm — senh

I’ve finally replaced the MySpace button with Google Buzz across the site. In order to do that I would have to first create a profile for Wopular on Google. The funny thing was I had actually created a Google profile for Wopular a while back, but had forgotten about it. I only found out when the profile name was taken when I tried to create a new one. Unfortunately, I’ve also forgotten my login/pw for that original profile, but after a while, I figured it out.

The Only People Willing to Pay for Twitter Are Users with over 100K Followers

Mon, 08/02/2010 - 1:53pm — senh

So far, I’ve only heard of two people who are willing to pay for Twitter - Guy kawasaki and Roger Ebert. If you search on Google, you’ll probably find more, but those are the only two I’ve read about. They have one thing in common - they each have over 100,000 followers.

ReBuzzThis Wants To Be The TweetMeme Of Google Buzz

You know how TweetMeme started out trying to be the Techmeme of Twitter before it ventured off plastering its ReTweet buttons on every blog on the Web?

Google Alters Buzz to Tackle Privacy Flaws

Google is making important changes to Buzz to address criticism from users and privacy advocates.

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Loving Google Buzz So Far

Fri, 02/12/2010 - 3:07pm — senh

Some features just make sense. Google Buzz is one of them. It's nothing new really. It's just Twitter integrated within GMail, and with commenting, it looks a lot like Facebook.

Using Google Buzz? Here’s a privacy checklist

You owe it to yourself to stop for a moment and examine how much of your personal information will be public when you're using Google Buzz and whether you're comfortable with that.

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