Google responds to privacy concerns, kills Buzz autofollow feature
Concerns about privacy on Google’s new social network, Buzz, have resulted in some serious changes. Google will disable the autofollow feature that connects new Buzz users automatically to their most frequently-emailed contacts.
These autofollows exposed users’ information to everyone from annoying friends to abusive ex-husbands. They’ve been replaced [...]

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www.aardvark.com, what is aardvark? google aquires aardvark.com.
Aardvark is social search: ask any question and Aardvark will discover the perfect person in your network to answer in minutes. Aardvark launched a private beta in March, 2009, and has been growing rapidly since.
Today people use Aardvark via vark.com, the Aardvark iPhone App, IM and [...]

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Google May Offer Buzz Independently From Gmail.
Google says it may allow people to participate in Google Buzz without having it integrated within Gmail, in addition to offering a combined Gmail service.
That may be a welcome move for users of both products, especially in light of the substantial privacy concerns voiced this week about Google Buzz.
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What Google Buzz is good for?
1. Procrastinating.
2. Telling the whole world something — by default Buzzes are public, which I think is an extremely confusing state of things for the average user since Buzz resides in Gmail, which is very much not public. (The first Gmail “add-on”, Google Chat, defaults to private mode too.)

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Information security vendor, Websense Labs, are warning users that spammers are already abusing Google Buzz, the newly launched social networking site.
According to Websense, spammers are sending messages leading to sites about how to quit smoking. The culprit is said to be following 237 users, just two days after the site’s induction.
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