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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Will Google Buzz Go the Way of Facebook Beacon? | Technomix | Fast Company

Will Google Buzz Go the Way of Facebook Beacon? | Technomix | Fast Company: "Whether you like it or loathe it, Google's new Buzz social sharing system has hit the headlines in a particularly catastrophic way over and over in the week since its launch. Though Google has moved to adjust some of the issues, some of the damage is already done. Google's usual trick of data-mining and automating some of the process (a trick it uses elsewhere in its other services) directly exposes to public view some data that many Google users would prefer to remain private--thanks to the auto-populated friends list that Buzz used to deliver to you on login."

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