by
Rebecca Schild
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published
Mar 02, 2010
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last modified
Aug 18, 2011 05:06 AM
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filed under:
Privacy,
Social Networking,
Competition,
Google Buzz
While the utility of the new social tool Buzz is still under question, the bold move into social space taken last week by the Google Buzz team has Gmail users questioning privacy implications of the new feature. In this post, I posit that Buzz highlights two privacy challenges of the social web. First, the application has sidestepped the consensual and contextual qualities desirable of social spaces. Secondly, Google’s move highlights the increasingly competitive and convergent nature of the social media landscape.
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