I just found out about Google Buzz, which was released today. Normally I am always signed in to Gmail, but after restarting my computer I had to sign back into Gmail and when I did Gmail gave me a little surprise:
Buzz is automatically added to your Gmail account, so you do not need to activate [...]
Google makes its most aggressive move against Facebook and Twitter yet, launching Google Buzz to let users post status updates and share Picasa photos, YouTube videos, links and other content inside Gmail. Google Buzz will automatically push updates to Gmail users from fellow users with whom they exchange e-mail and engage in chat sessions. Responses to Buzz posts appear in real time, making the feature more relevant now that users have become accustomed to instant feedback on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed and other messaging and collaboration sites.
– Google Feb. 9 made its most aggressive move against Facebook and Twitter
yet, launching Google Buzz, which lets users post status
updates and share Picasa photos, YouTube videos, links and other content right in
Gmail.
Rolling out over the next few days to Gmail’s 176 million users (according
t…
The Droid smartphone, which has been described as handsome, masculine and industrial, appears to have made Motorola a hit among men. BrandIndex found Motorolas buzz scores to be on the rise, during a period that Apples and BlackBerrys fell.
– In a recent measure of “buzz” among men 18 and older,
Motorola was on the rise, while both Apple and BlackBerry fell, according to
data from YouGovs BrandIndex, which interviews 5,000 people each weekday to
gauge consumer brand perception on a day-to-day basis.
The popularity boost l…
Socialcast Oct. 6 will announce Social Business Intelligence, a suite of analytics software for its microblogging platform. SBI runs network analysis to ferret out informal connections between individuals and groups, looking at posts, comments and liking activity over time.
With SBI, Socialcast joins companies such as Jive Software in blending business intelligence tools into enterprise social media as a way to give customers an idea of what corporate employees are saying in social networks.
– Socialcast, which makes Twitter-like status update software for businesses, Oct. 6 is planning to announce analytics software for its microblogging platform, becoming the latest vendor to create business intelligence tools that help companies gauge social activity.
Called Social Business Intellige…
Angela Merkel’s CDU and the liberal FDP will rule Germany together
THE election campaign was soporific but the results are startling. The “grand coalition” of Germany’s two biggest parties, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the left-leaning Social Democratic Party (SPD), has been voted out of office. Angela Merkel remains as chancellor but her new governing partner will be the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), which scored its best result ever on Sunday September 27th. The change of partners portends a sharp shift in the priorities and tone of Germany’s government.
The new “black-yellow” government is a reincarnation of a coalition that governed Germany from 1983 to 1998 but with the FDP now in a considerably stronger position. The FDP is a pro-business party that champions reforms of social security, civil liberties, and above all lower and simpler taxes. It strongly opposes many of the policies that Ms Merkel adopted during the grand coalition to placate her SPD partners, such as minimum wages and give-aways to pensioners. The course of government over the next four years will largely depend on how tensions relating to such polices are resolved. …
Maybe it’s because I’m getting older (with the granny glasses to prove it), but I’m starting to tire of the whole “buzz”-chasing world. Now, it’s…
CNN interviewed the hosts of the show “Mythbusters” about the conspiracy theorists who believe the Apollo Moon landing was faked, and the their extensive efforts debunking the claims of the Moon landing deniers.
However, buried towards the en…
