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After going dark a week due to a particularly nasty cold, TechStuff Live is back and ready for another week of technology news and rumors. Over the last two weeks, Chris and I have been scouring the Web for the most interesting stories. One such story is the ongoing Google Buzz saga. One of your hosts still uses Google Buzz — the other chose to disable it. Tune in today to find out why.
We’ll also cover some other news topics and bring you our weekly special effects extravaganza. You can watch us right here or grab our handy-dandy Facebook application.
When I wrote my original post last week about Google Buzz, I had no idea that I would be writing a third this week and that the second two would be over the massive outbreak of concern surrounding Google‘s mishandling of privacy issues surrounding its new social networking tool.
Only a couple of hours after we both received Google Buzz functionality, Jonathan and I were discussing Google’s seeming disregard for our privacy. I admit, I was really excited about the idea just two days ago, but then I had the chance to try it and to discuss it with other people. The more I thought about it, the more I felt obligated to opt out.
OK, so as Jonathan and I were streaming live this afternoon on TechStuff Live, Google executives were rolling out the company’s new social networking project, Google Buzz. Rumors were circulating this morning that Google wanted to do something new with social networking with status updates akin to Twitter, probably something related to Gmail.
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