Google Fired Buzz
Google announced a “fall sweep” on October 14, detailing the shuttering of several products, including Google Buzz, the company’s controversial attempt at a social network. Bradley Horowitz, Google VP of product, wrote the following in a post on the Official Google Blog: In a few weeks we’ll shut down Google Buzz and the Buzz API, and focus instead on Google+. While people obviously won’t be able [ Read More ]
Google+ Tips For Business Owners
Article authored by Jason Sadler Jason Sadler is the founder of IWearYourShirt.com, a social media marketing and advertising company in its third year of business. Jason is a regular contributor to major media outlets and speaks professionally around the country about social media and marketing. With new social networks popping up everyday, it can be hard to figure out which ones deserve your business’s time [ Read More ]
Google launches Google+ Facebook competitor, publishes new privacy policies
The mystery of the black menu bar at the top of your Google searches is solved. Apparently, it’s part of gearing up for Google’s latest assault on the social networking scene. Facebook‘s latest competitor is alive, and it’s called Google+. (You say that name like you might read out a broken line of C code – Google plus.)
Google Apologizes for Not Protecting User Privacy
It is now liable for independent reviews of its privacy procedures every two years for the next two decades Last year, Google Buzz was blamed for failing to protect user data and accessing contacts books of users. Google Buzz social network built inside Gmail turned out to be first ever privacy protection horror for the company. Now, Google has finally made peace with the Federal [ Read More ]