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Google to kill Buzz, focus social efforts on Plus

Google to kill Buzz, focus social efforts on Plus

Google is getting ready to press the mute button on Buzz, an online social networking service that turned into a massive faux pas.

Senh: It doesn't make sense to have both. Althought Google+ is turning into Buzz, meaning it's pretty dead, even if there are a lot of users, most of them are probably inactive.

 

Digg Has Been Ransacked and Sprayed with Graffiti

Digg Has Been Ransacked and Sprayed with Graffiti

The latest version of Digg - aka Digg v4 - is getting a lot of negative feedback from its users, especially the power users. They’ve lead a Digg Revolt by pushing articles from their rival, Reddit, to Digg’s homepage. Now, they’ve defaced the site’s comment system by littering it with anti-Digg comments.

 

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

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

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.

 

TweetDeck Adds Foursquare, Google Buzz and Filters

As we noted yesterday, the launch of the new Google Buzz API means that applications like TweetDeck, Seesmic, Plancast and Boxee can now integrate directly with Google Buzz. Seesmic Desktop released its first version with Google Buzz support yesterday and today TweetDeck joins the Google Buzz party.

 

AOL Launches Lifestream As New Standalone Product. This Is What Google Buzz Should Have Been

Aol launched Lifestream, a social aggregator and publisher, as part of their AIM platform at TechCrunch50 Last Fall. Since then it has gained nearly 2 million users, say Aol. Based on that success Aol is now launching Lifestream as a standalone product at lifestream.aol.com.

 

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.

 

Loving Google Buzz So Far

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

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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