Buzz Team Slept at Google Over the Weekend

[JMcEntegart]

Buzz team members are working overtime to get things straightened out.

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[rigaudio]

I ignored it when it first came out. Now I'm glad I did.

 

[Guest]

And where exactly are these supposed clear instructions on how to totally disable Buzz? So far as I can tell, the only way to disable Buzz is to delete your google profile? This seems like a spectacular design failure.

 

[Guest]

Damn, I hope they're getting paid VERY well for that sort of commitment.

 

[crewslee]

I have avoided loggine ingo my Google account since all this BUZZ started. TBH i only use Google for the shared calendar (CALDAV) and subscribing to sites that may sell my email to spammers. Why release this junk in the first place.

 

[Honis]

[citation][nom]gnookergi[/nom]Damn, I hope they're getting paid VERY well for that sort of commitment.[/citation]
Knowing Google's previous treatment of employee's, they are probably being generously rewarded for their time.

I just hope Google learns from this and doesn't rush another product (I'm looking at you Wave).

 

[zoemayne]

gmail is the best email service provider as far as i know... their the 1st to implement some of the features we see in almost all email providers now. and unlike my comcast email which i pay they never have lost my emails even hotmail has never lost an email of mines all of my emails get forwarded to my gmail account i havent used outlook for almost a year now. its funny a service that is free is better than a paid service.

 

[Dirtman73]

This is one of the many reasons I only use Google mail for junk contacts. I really feel sorry for the suckers that have been using Google as a primary email account for all these years.

 

[slapdashzero]

I don't understand why any company would even want to make a feature like that in the first place nowadays. Think back to how often the "Share your with everyone and the World!" feature has been a GOOD idea. Umm... never; Facebook's privacy debacles, anyone? It's always cause major problems and headaches and security issues and complaints. And for good reason. They said they had an "opt-out" for the feature when setting up an account. Seems to me that anything that affects or compromises privacy in such an astounding way should always be "opt-IN", as in off by default unless you take some painfully deliberate steps to make that information public.

But what would users know?

 

[azcoyote]

They slept at the office? Ahhhhh.... (shoots them the bird)
I think they should be sleeping with the fishes.

What a debacle. I am not pleased by having my info "published" for all without my consent. Many others are not either. Massive Epic FAIL by Google. May as well dig it a grave and bury it now.

 

[dman3k]

I wouldn't be surprised if Google Buzz cause the demise of Google.

 

[the_krasno]

If I worked at google, I would want to live there. That place is like disneyland for geeks!

 

[Guest]

settings/buzz tab to turn it off. it is automatically on, so if you have signed in since this started you are most likely "using" it even if you don't know/want to

 

[brendano257]

Glad to see this kind of initiative in a technology company. I'd bet they're getting 2x time, at least time 1.5. I'm not really interested in it, but they must think it has promise if they're putting in this effort.

 

[spongebob]

Slept at the office? Not impressed - that kind of thing has been happening in the game publishing industry for years.

 

[mattoneous]

worked at google and people routinely worked long hours because A. they were nerds and had no lives and B. were contractors and had to get projects done over the weekends internal to google without effecting other employees. You slept on a bean bag or a couch in a conference room, really not a big deal. P.S. they had cateered food on the weekends because again employees would come into work on saturdays and sunday and these guys were on salary.

 

[mattoneous]

edit: the sad employees were the salary ones coming in on the weekends for no overtime. The contractors were getting overtime and or double time depending on how long into the night you were there...

 

[JohnnyLucky]

It would have been better if they had just made it disappear completely.

 

[amdchuck]

well thankfully the Buzz tab under Settings allowing you to COMPLETELY DISABLE BUZZ has been implemented......finally. thanks for that at least.