{"id":437,"date":"2010-02-15T08:58:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T14:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/15\/google-buzz-makes-another-change\/"},"modified":"2010-02-15T09:03:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T15:03:32","slug":"google-buzz-makes-another-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/15\/google-buzz-makes-another-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Buzz Makes Another Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google Buzz<\/strong> has been up for less than a week and they have made their second announcement based on user feedback. Over the weekend they said on their latest blog post<\/a> they have been addressing user concerns and will be making some to the system over the next few days.<\/p>\n

Google Changes the Buzz Start-Up Experience<\/h2>\n

One of the first things the Buzz team did was change the way the way Buzz<\/a> automatically follows user contacts<\/a>.\u00a0 Originally, when the system first was released, after the start-up process, users would already had a list of followers and users they were following based on who they contacted most through Gmail. To us, this looked like our contacts were open to the world and we had followers before we even had a profile setup.<\/p>\n

On Thursday<\/a>, Google made their first changes to make it easier for new users during the setup and configuration process to where they can set contacts to private easier.\u00a0 Starting this week, instead of Buzz automatically following your email contacts you talk with the most, they will be changing this system to auto-suggest model. What this means to the user is, they will not follow anyone until you review the suggestion list and tell the system what to follow.<\/p>\n

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As for those already using Buzz, Google will be rolling out a new version for them in the next few weeks. The version will give the Buzz users a second chance to review and select who they follow and if they want to share this with the public.<\/p>\n

Another change to Buzz is, Buzz will no longer automatically share your public Picasa Web Albums and Public Google Reader accounts. Buzz only shares items in your reader that you set as public and will share that with the world. If you have not shared it should still be set to private.<\/p>\n

The third change they will make based on user feedback is, there will be a tab in the Gmail user settings to disable Google Buzz or hide it. The Buzz team will also add links in the start-up process so you can try it and remove if needed.<\/p>\n

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These are some great changes, and its great that the Buzz team is moving quickly to make these changes and listening to the users. Other social networks, should follow Google’s lead and listen to their users.\u00a0 But, Google should have thought about these issues in the first place and never released Buzz with these settings as default. There are a lot of users out there that still like having some privacy, and they should of had the choice during the start up process to make these changes and not have to be forced to go looking for these settings to turn on privacy.<\/p>\n

What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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