How do you build buzz in social media? What makes social media real-life marketing events successful? It is not one thing in particular, but many things: your vision, the people you involve, and the strategies you employ.

Yesterday, Google announced the arrival of +1, a tool that adds an element of social networking to the company's search engine. If you think it bears any similarity to Facebook's "Like" button, you are not alone.

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Since the launch of Google Buzz earlier this year, Google has been consistently tweaking its social media platform with a host of updates and changes,...

Among the many Gmail subscribers to have their private contacts exposed in the Google Buzz privacy fiasco was Andrew McLaughlin, the Obama administrat...

Although it's not an advanced handset -- the iPad stands to increase AT&T's market share and its wireless income.

Google Buzz is a week old and it has set the social networking ecosystem into a frenzy. Many opinions are polarized -- love it or hate it.

When merging data sources and privacy preferences companies must proceed carefully, a lesson Google seems to have learned last weekend.

By exposing your Buzz followers, Google was exposing the people you communicate with. That could be a problem if that list included a potential employer you were negotiating with while still at your current job.

A week ago, Google Buzz wasn't on anyone's radar (other than Google's, of course). Today, it's part of the conversation -- and lots of people are already using it. So we are diving in.

(AP) MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Google is making it easier to socialize on its e-mail service. It's unveiling a new "Google Buzz" feature that sets up a...

One potential difference between Google's effort and that of its competitors will be its ability to help users distinguish between relevant status updates and all the "noise" one encounters on Twitter and Facebook.