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‘Google Buzz’ Category

• Google Buzz Could Cause A Major Privacy Issue

  Date: 2010.02.13 | Category: Google Buzz | Response: Comments

  A day after its launch, Google Buzz, the Gmail social networking tool offered by the search engine giant, has surrounded itself with controversy as tech analysts across the world are voicing their concerns over huge privacy flaws in the newly rolled out tool.

  The privacy issue was first raised by the Silicon Valley Insider, a popular tech blog, which observed that Google Buzz automatically creates a list of all the Gmail contacts that a user most frequently chats with or emails to.

  Then Buzz starts ‘following’ the people on the users contact list and makes the list public, easily available on the internet.

  This means if somebody wants to find out the people with whom a person is regularly chatting with or mailing to, they can do so with ease, leaving nothing to the imagination.

  This particular issue with Google Buzz is being looked upon as a serious privacy intrusion by many users, who were forced to share their email and contact lists with the whole world (as public).

  However, upon closer inspection, it was found that Google Buzz only allows those who are Buzz users or have a Google profile, to view the email and chat lists of other Buzz users.

  Also Google mercifully grants users the opportunity to ‘unfollow’ those with whom they don’t want to be linked to.

  Originally published on ITProPortal.com

• Meet Buzz, Google’s Social Networking Tool For Gmail

  Date: 2010.02.10 | Category: Google Buzz | Response: Comments

  Search engine giant Google has rolled out a brand new tool for its Gmail mail service which will allow users to share photos, web links, videos and status updates, among other features.

  With this tool, Google attempts to carve a niche for it self in the lucrative social networking market which is currently dominated by Facebook.

  Buzz, the social networking tool launched by Google, has currently been made available to only one percent Gmail inboxes for a ‘test drive’ with plans of rolling out the tool for rest of Gmail account holders within a week.

  Commenting on the new social networking tool, Google in an official blog post that “With more and more communication happening online, the social web has exploded as the primary way to share interesting stuff, tell the world what you’re up to in real-time and stay more connected to more people.”

  According to Google, Buzz is designed to offer a complete set of social networking features which will allow users to stay connected with their friends and family right from their Gmail inbox.

  Buzz is Google’s way of targeting Facebook and Twitter by offering users similar functionality to users, right from their inbox. Find out more about Buzz here.

  Originally published on ITProPortal.com

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