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A snapshot suggesting Buzz had at least a few loyal users – perhaps Google would have received more user feedback, if they hadn’t disabled comments on the post.
Buzz by Google Buzz Team – Today we announced our plans to retire Google Buzz along…
Continue reading: Buzz by Google Buzz Team – Today we announced our plans to retire Google Buzz along…
Bye-bye Buzz; see the post link below for other soon-to-be-terminated Google services/programs
We aspire to build great products that really change people’s lives, products they use two or three times a day. To succeed you need real focus and thought—thought about what you work on and, just as important, what you don’t work on. It’s why we recently decided to shut down some products, and turn others into features of existing products.
Here’s the latest update on what’s happening:
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Probably not the type of buzz Google was hoping for
Google Inc. (GOOG) agreed to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission claims that it used deceptive tactics and violated its own privacy policies when it introduced the Buzz social-networking service last year.
The proposed settlement bars Google from misrepresenting how it handles information, obliges the company to follow policies that protect consumer data in new products and requires periodic reviews to ensure the policies are followed, the FTC said in a statement today.
Google Settles Data Privacy Complaint With FTC on ‘Buzz’ Social Network – Bloomberg
Continue reading: Google Settles Data Privacy Complaint With FTC on ‘Buzz’ Social Network – Bloomberg
Coincidentally, Google Buzz has gone almost completely quiet for me over the last several days
Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) launched its Buzz messaging tool in February, and suffered an immediate backlash from users upset about the feature’s slipshod privacy tools. Google quickly tweaked some of the settings, but Buzz hasn’t caught on in the crowded social-media field; it’s a "me too" effort with few distinguishing features.
The article concludes with another Eric Schmidt moment of Zen:
The Google CEO managed to turn a few heads when he sketched a utopian vision of all the ways technology can improve lives by handling the tasks machines are better at than… Continue reading: What Google learned from its Buzz ‘stumble’ – Sep. 28, 2010 [CNN Money]
How many other Buzz headlines have you seen in the business or tech press lately?…
Money aside (a drop in Google’s bucket, to be sure), Google’s biggest problem with Buzz at the moment may be the fact that it appears to be having trouble gaining traction against more established social-networking sites. The company has never disclosed how many people are using Buzz, which allows users to post status updates, essays, photos, or other content and have their "followers" comment on that content, but prominent tech commentator Leo Laporte’s Buzz feed inadvertently went dark for quite some time without either Laporte or his many followers noticing.
Google settles Buzz lawsuit for $8.5M | Relevant Results – CNET… Continue reading: Google settles Buzz lawsuit for $8.5M | Relevant Results – CNET News
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