Buzz

Google is still trying to compete with Facebook and Twitter in terms of traffic generation. Google Buzz. Sharing through Google Reader has risen by over 34% (this is an estimation but thought to be reliable). Even this meteoric rise is dwarfed by Twitter and Facebook which account for the vast bulk of social media traffic. [...]

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A woman in Florida has been one of the first to plan a lawsuit against Google because of the invasion of privacy Buzz has allegedly caused. PC World reports that Eva Hibnik has filed a suit on behalf of approximately 31 million people. By doing what it did “”Google Buzz made private data belonging to [...]

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Twitter Continues To Grow

by Mark Clayson

Have a look here – Royal Pingdom – and you will see that the growth of twitter continues. A nice graph tells part of the story: This visualises all Tweets from all sources and shows that activity in terms of Tweets per month continues to rise. This is a good time to be thinking of [...]

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Facebook Overtakes Yahoo

by Mark Clayson

Yahoo has slumped to third in the US in respect of web destination popularity. Google, naturally, is first but Facebook has taken the coveted second spot. Some of this is due to the way the “votes” are counted. This cannot be good news for Yahoo who have always surprised us with their hold near the [...]

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More Google Buzziness

by Mark Clayson

I keep talking about Google Buzz. I really think those good people should pay me for each mention. It’s the hot momma of the moment yet it is hard to know what all the fuss is about. Some people say it is ready to kill Twitter – if it aspires to do this then it [...]

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