Google Buzz, only a week old, is gaining a lot of visibility, and is seen as Google’s most direct attack against social upstarts Facebook and Twitter. Some really like it. Others are up in arms about perceived privacy violations. Louis Gray and Chris Saad discuss whether Buzz’s clear mimicry of FriendFeed and other existing sites missed a new opportunity to innovate – and become a true social network aggregation tool, including aggregation of gestures. Did Google make a mistake, and not really invent anything new with Buzz, making it immediately an also-ran?

Companies discussed include: Google, Google Buzz, GMail, Google Reader, FriendFeed, Facebook, my6sense, ReadBurner and Seesmic.

 

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Louis Gray and Chris Saad discuss the issue of real-time news reporting and curation, most recently seen with this week’s controversy involving TechCrunch and Teens In Tech CEO Daniel Brusilovsky. Are we going to see a transformation of journalism from solely content creation to a mix of content curation, and if not, how can we compensate investigative journalism?

People mentioned include: Loic Le Meur, Gabe Rivera, Loren Feldman, Michael Arrington, Robert Scoble, Marshall Kirkpatrick, John Furrier

Companies/Products mentioned include: Cascaad, My6Sense, Techmeme, CBS, NBC, CNN, Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Read/Write Web, Silicon Angle.

 

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