Google Buzz is launching a firehose feature for its API, making all public activities by Buzz users available to third-party applications as soon as they are published.

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Google Buzz Turns On the Firehose

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Today, Google has announced the launch of the Google Buzz firehose, which will give developers access to all public activity published on Buzz via a single feed with real-time PubSubHubBub syndication.

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Google Launches Buzz Firehose

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Google has announced a new version of Google Buzz, its social networking tool, that can be accessed in 37 languages from BlackBerry, Nokia Series 60, and Windows phones.

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Google Buzz gets friendly with BlackBerry, Nokia, and Windows phones

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Scientists show how the social network could be mined for e-mail addresses. Users who are still displaying their Google Buzz following / follower list on their Google profiles are leaving themselves open to spammers and, potentially, sophisticated phishing attacks.

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Blog – Is Google Buzz a Spammer Bonanza?

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Three weeks ago, data protection officials representing Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, and the UK wrote an open letter to Eric Schmidt, expressing concerns about Google Buzz and Google’s overall approach to privacy.  Now, Google’s responded, but the search giant was very selective in terms of which points it addressed. For example: The …

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Google Downplays Privacy Authorities’ Concerns

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