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Posted on 11/02/10
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  • Tweets...

    • Just watched possibly the best scene ever on TV! Grey's Anatomy... One of the doctors actually going mad, in the most awesome way possible 2010-11-05
    • No way can I buy another mac now... I guess I'll be going back to Fedora in the near future. 2010-11-05
    • Wow. Apple removing Java from OS X? http://bit.ly/dt63lj That's not a good sign for any developer with a mac who doesn't code in Obj-C... 2010-11-05
    • Yay my book arrived! Gonna read it now. It's called "Kuby Immunology" - for my dissertation. 2010-11-01
    • Installing gtk2hs - the gtk GUI toolkit bindings for haskell :-) Hopefully this will do better than wxHaskell... 2010-10-30
    • More updates...

    • The newest Buzzword

    Google recently created their own take on social networks, called Buzz, aiming to become a sort of fusion of Facebook and Twitter. Allowing quite large updates, including links to various websites, as well as allowing you to choose whether to make it visible to everyone, or just your friends.

    It is slowly being rolled out to all GMail users, when you get it, when you next log in, you’ll be presented with a brief explanation, and buttons for going straight to Buzz or back to your email.

    I know what most of you are thinking, oh no, another thing to update, and I agree.

    There has been a lot of concern over the privacy of users in the last few months, and Google has done nothing to help. Buzz is entirely opt-out, automatically giving people access to your private information. Surely they would have seen the fuss over Facebook, and tried to avoid this sort of mess?

    To be honest, I don’t have time for another social network, and especially with the privacy concerns, will not be using it just yet.