In one week, Google’s Buzz social network has moved through a splashy launch, a quick fix, a major clean-up, and now, an apology. Buzz’s product manager says his team is “very, very sorry” and that (more) fixes are coming this week.
Now that Google’s Buzz social network has learned from its mistakes, more users might be keen on actually giving it a go. The Google Operating System blog has a great power user’s guide to the finer points of Buzz.
Another twist in the Picasa album limits saga, and another potential issue with Google Buzz: sharing photos via Google’s social networking service eats into your Picasa album count.
Whether you call it a huge privacy flaw or just an annoyance, Google Buzz can put the contacts you automatically follow — a.k.a. those you most frequently email or chat — on a public profile page. Here’s how to undo that.
If 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.
Google today announced a new service called Google Buzz, which automatically brings social networking to Gmail. Whether or not you’re a big on social network sites like Twitter or Facebook, it looks very cool.
