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Google Buzz Spreads Across The Web, Launches Official Share Buttons - 0 views

  • Google has just launched its first set of official Google Buzz Buttons, allowing sites to integrate Buzz sharing with a snippet of code.
Kurt Laitner

Google-lanche « Trenchwars Weblog - 1 views

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  • This is why the announcement of Google Buzz is so sad for me. It marks the precise moment when Google succumbed to the mistake of creating products designed first to maintain their market dominance over creating stuff people would really need.
François Dongier

Google Buzz Not a Twitter or Facebook Killer, Says Google Exec - 0 views

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    Google's plan, it seems, is to create an open platform for social messaging, such that Google Buzz is integrated with services all around the web.
François Dongier

James Clark's Random Thoughts: A tour of the open standards used by Google Buzz - 0 views

  • The thing I find most attractive about Google Buzz is its stated commitment to open standards: We believe that the social web works best when it works like the rest of the web — many sites linked together by simple open standards.
  • One key design decision in Google Buzz is that individuals in the social web should be identifiable by email addresses (or at least strings that look like email addresses)
  • There are also standards that extend  Atom. The simplest are just content extensions: Atom Activity Extensions provides semantic markup for social networking activities (such as "liking" something or posting something). This makes good sense to me. Media RSS Module provides extensions for dealing with multimedia content. These were originally designed by Yahoo for RSS. I don't yet understand how these interact with existing Atom/AtomPub mechanisms for multimedia (content/@src, link).
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  • There are also protocol extensions: PubSubHubbub provides a scalable way of getting near-realtime updates from an Atom feed. The Atom feed includes a link to a “hub”.  An aggregator can then register with hub to be notified when a feed is updated. When a publisher updates a feed, it pings the hub and the hub then updates all the aggregators that have registered with it.  This is intended for server-based aggregators, since the hub uses HTTP POST to notify aggregators. Salmon makes feed aggregation two-way.  Suppose user A uses only social networking site X and user B uses only social networking site Y. If user A wants to network with B, then typically either A has to join Y or B has to join X.  This pushes the world in the direction of having one dominant social network (i.e. Facebook). In the long-term I don’t think this is a good thing.  The above extensions solve part of the problem. X can expose a profile for A that links to an Atom feed, and Y can use this to provide B with information about A. But there’s a problem.  Suppose B wants to comment on one of A’s entries.  How can Y ensure that B’s comment flows back to X, where A can see it?  Note that there may be another user C on another social networking site Z that may want to see B’s comment on A’s entry. The basic idea is simple: the Atom feed for A exposed by X links to a URI to which comments can be posted.  The heavy lifting of Salmon is done by Magic Signatures.  Signing the Atom entries is the key to allowing sites to determine whether to accept comments.
  • Google seems to planning to use the Open Web Foundation (OWF) for some of these standards
  • We're working on the APIs out in the open over at http://groups.google.com/group/google-buzz-api
Jack Logan

Google Alters Buzz Service Over Privacy Concerns - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Try it again, Sam ...
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F*ck You, Google - Bad Valentine - Gizmodo - 2 views

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    ahoo posted this in her blog. hmmnnn
frank smith

Google Buzz? More Like Buzz Kill - Techtonic Shifts Blog - Newsweek.com - 2 views

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    "Google Wave, mostly because nobody can figure out what it does or how it works, so that it exists only as a catnip toy for new media wanker-pundits who love it because it gives them something to blather on about, plus it provides them with yet another weapon in their arsenal of things that can be used to make lesser folks, like me, feel yet more guilty and left behind.((" "And now, ta-da, comes Google Buzz, announced yesterday, and I swear to God I just want to start screaming. What is it? Apparently it is Gmail on steroids." "'m not looking for more clutter in my life. I'm looking for less." BWahaahaaaaaa... THIS GUY IS GREAT!!!
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How to Do Everything in Google Buzz (Including Turn It Off) | Work Smart | Fast Company - 0 views

  • Google's new social media service Google Buzz will show up in your Gmail account this week. Here's how to customize and use Buzz--or opt out of its inbox-cluttering updates completely.
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Hide/Remove Google Buzz Updates from Your Gmail Inbox - google buzz - Lifehacker - 0 views

  • f you just don't have the bandwidth to manage one more set of social notifications automatically hitting your Gmail inbox, you may not be all that excited about this morning's Google Buzz announcement. Luckily banishing Buzz from your inbox is easy.
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WARNING: Google Buzz Has A Huge Privacy Flaw - 1 views

  • There is a huge privacy flaw in Google's new Twitter/Facebook competitor, Google Buzz.
Kurt Laitner

Can Google Generate Buzz in the Enterprise? - PCWorld Business Center - 1 views

  • A tool like Google Buzz, however, relies on the web of connections users have established in their social networks, and loses much of its appeal without the ability to integrate Picasa, YouTube, and other such services. Users don't want to have to manage dual personas, so Google needs to figure out how to integrate the enterprise and consumer services, but provide IT administrators with the tools necessary to restrict or deny access.
Kurt Laitner

Google Buzz: Forget Twitter, Microsoft's SharePoint is a bigger target | Between the Li... - 0 views

  • Google has an “embarrassment of opportunity” of tying up its services in a nice bow
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