Tag: GOOGLE BUZZ

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... When free services like Twitter and Google crash, users may caterwaul and whine, but the sites don't immediately suffer from significant revenue loss. Outages certainly penalize online retailers, though. Amazon endured a rare three-hour crash yesterday, leading to a 7.8-percent drop in shares by the market's Tuesday close. Based on ...

Google may be relatively new to the social networking scene, but the company is proving to be a quick study. After the undeniable debacle that was the Buzz launch, Google moved quickly to clean up the mess it had made by automatically connecting users to their most frequent contacts. Now, the company is planning to completely reboot its privacy settings, and, starting today, will be asking ...

Share For the past year, Microsoft has been quietly testing a microblogging service for businesses, essentially developing a corporate Twitter. Taking the tweeting bird and dressing it in office park grays, OfficeTalk's resemblance to the popular microblogging service is uncanny: The experiment uses topic hashtags, has an in-built URL shortener, supports "@" mentions and limits its messages to ...

Share Facebook is taking a break from the constant, user-infuriating redesigns to add an honest-to-goodness new feature -- location updates (which will probably be user-infuriating, anyway). Location awareness is all the rage for social networks as GPS has become a standard feature on most smartphones. Twitter, Google Buzz, Google Latitude, and Foursquare have all tightly interwoven these ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Last year, a Roman Catholic bishop urged believers to give up text messaging for Lent, and, this Ash Wednesday, other religious leaders are expanding on that suggestion. Instead of encouraging church members to avoid chocolate or other trivialities, a group of English bishops has asked that Anglicans engage in a complete ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... The first authorized Steve Jobs biography is reportedly in the works, and Jobs has apparently (and somewhat surprisingly) cooperated with the man tabbed to chronicle his life. Jobs has invited writer Walter Isaacson, who has previously penned biographies of Ben Franklin and Albert Einstein, to take a tour of the Apple mogul's ...

Google Buzz may still be in its infancy, but it already has one obvious leg up on its competition: speed of evolution. Facebook may seem to have an endless line of facelifts, but its response to user criticism is slow at best. Twitter, on the other hand, has been slow to roll out new features and tweak the interface, often announcing changes months in advance. Meanwhile, Buzz has been out for ...

Share There's plenty of excitement around Google's new Buzz social networking tool right now, but, as is the case with any new technology, there are also concerns. Questions have arisen regarding whether it will prove distracting rather than useful (especially when it's integrated into your inbox), and of what the privacy implications will be. Some concern has been expressed over how Buzz ...

Share Google just announced Google Buzz, a new system for sharing (and commenting on) updates and media both privately and publicly. A social network similar to Facebook and Twitter, Buzz seems to be fully integrated into many of Google's services; you'll be able to access it via Gmail, Google's redesigned mobile homepage, a new dedicated Buzz app, and an updated version of the Google Maps app. ...