Any buzz on Google Buzz?

It has gotten hammered because of privacy concerns. They didn't do a very good job of testing it -- the bypassed the trials they typically do with external testers first and really screwed it up. Among other problems, it shared your e-mail contacts with people you didn't add to your social network and tracks your location when you do anything and it is available to others.

Google has a giant war room with engineers trying to do on the fly fixes to it, according to one thing I read. They really screwed the pooch on it, though. I disabled it on my gmail account; wanted no part of it.

 

When you log into your gmail account, toward the bottom of the screen, under a line in small print that says, "gmail view" click on the link that says "turn off buzz."