Google is scrambling to repair the security exploit (see lack of follower message view control) they overlooked by stating that the option to block public views of contacts was always there. LifeHacker has a decent walk-through and Google has now posted a “we listened to your feedback” post on the official Google blog page. This fix is not a [...]
BusinessWeek examines how Facebook is transforming the mobile phone, and poses the question, “what if Facebook made their own smartphone?”
Thank you for the warning Harriet. ( The BBC NEWS seemed to agree back in 2007) I use my private Gmail account to email my boyfriend and my mother. There’s a BIG drop-off between them and my other “most frequent” contacts. You know who my third most frequent contact is? My abusive ex-husband. Which is [...]
Buzz versus buzz. It looks like someone at Google forgot to check to see if Buzz was available as a trade name for a social media service. If only there was a search engine that they could have used…
Does the 800 lb. gorilla of search have what it takes to win against the Twin Titans of Social Networking? Buzz vs. Twitter and Facebook.
