Gmail-Free Version of Buzz Being Considered

Update: In case there is any confusion, Google will not be taking Buzz out of Gmail. The company issued this statement after some confusion in the blogosphere:

No, we're not planning to remove Buzz from Gmail. Among some of the features we're considering is building a standalone Buzz experience in addition to the one in Gmail at some point in the future.

Original Article: There's no question that Google Buzz has been the topic of the week. Google took the tech and social media industries by storm as it launched its new social media product.

Already, Buzz has shown a great deal of potential, but it has also created more than a few problems and concerns. Privacy has been the key concern. The most heavily publicized and perhaps most illustrative example of this can be found in this story from a woman who was automatically connected with her abusive ex-husband. Her post begins...

I use my private Gmail account to email my boyfriend and my mother.

There's a BIG drop-off between them and my other "most frequent" contacts.

You know who my third most frequent contact is?

My abusive ex-husband...

Google is rolling out additional privacy adjustments to Buzz, reportedly in response to this woman's post. People you block in Buzz still show up as following you in Google Reader and there has been no ability to block people from Google Reader, but Google is working on changing both of these. Google has issued a statement to this effect.

On another Buzz-related note, Danny Sullivan reports that Google is also considering a version of Buzz that would be independent from Gmail:

“It’s clear that interest in Buzz may extend beyond the current Gmail base, and we’re open to serving that community,” said Bradley Horowitz, Google’s VP of Product Marketing, when I spoke to him about some Buzz issues at the TED Conference.

Horowitz stressed that Google would still offer a version of Buzz within Gmail, in addition to any independent version.

“We think that Buzz within Gmail is a great experience, and we’ll keep offering that as well,” Horowitz said.

Google Buzz may have gotten off to kind of a rocky start in some aspects, but many others have paid the service plenty of praise. Google said as it was announced that it was only the first version, and they were counting on user feedback to help them improve it. At least they appear to be making good on that.

Australian Dust Storm Videos Are Amazing

 Amazing videos hit the web showing a Mars-like view of Australia today. 

Youtube poster TwilightSuspension writes, "Unlike anything I've ever seen before. Just lucky I was up to film it. Dust storm over the Hawkesbury, Australia. Taken at about 5:30am. The color is perfect and completely unexaggerated.

 

Here are some other independent videos of the Great Australian Dust Storm of 2009:

 

 

 

 

 

PPC Appraisal Program: Leave Your Computer On And Earn Money

This program is very simple to download, entirely free and really works!

Requiring no sponsoring, no costs at all to join, once it has been set up, the only thing you do is leave your computer on and the system will just automatically run and you can trace your income by the second.

This program operates comparable to “click on a search engine and get paid” programs, with the exception of the following:

1. It is run automatically similar to auto surf, so there is no need for you to click on any link.

2. It does not provide you with only one search engine, but there are at least twenty one now running.

If you continually run your computer for twenty four hours a day, you may earn up to fifteen dollars a day. At the end of the month, when they will be adding up to two hundred more search engines, you may earn up to sixty dollars a day, not doing anything, just be online.

In addition, you get another five percent of your referrals running time; these referrals could go as far as four levels.

Every search engine builds up an independent total of your time surfing. You must reach sixty dollars before payment be done by each of the search engine.

Normally, when you are running your computer online for twenty four hours each day, without any referral, for you to reach sixty dollars, it would more or less take you up to two months, with the now running twenty four search engines. Now consider this, sixty multiplied by twenty four will equal to one thousand four hundred forty. This is how much you will make in two months, of doing nothing.

Signing up:

http://www.ppcappraisal.com/

1. Go to http://www.ppcappraisal.com/register.php and fill out the form.

2. Where it is asking for the company name, put PPC appraisal

For the URL, put ppcappraisal.com

For tax ID, put N/A

Fill the rest of the form with your personal information

Take note that ppc appraisal does not accept any email address with full stops or non alphabetic characters in it. If you are in need of a new email address just for this intention, you can register at www.hotmail.com ; they offer a free account.

3. Log in (this will take you on to a menu)

4. Hit select all at the pages’ bottom.

5. Go back again to the bottom of the page and hit “select all” then “request”

6. There will be more than two pages that will appear. Do the same for all of the pages.

7. Go to your PPC account and click on “statistics” and observe the entire search engines appear and your total earnings.

8. Download “test 33” (go to http://66.84.56.206/ppc/test33.exe) and make sure you save it to the desktop.

9. Log in to PPC appraisal, select campaigns on the menu.

10. Write down a copy of your portal URL

11. In the test33 browser, go to tools, analyst, act, setup; you will see two squares that are empty; on the lower left side, click append and wait for the pop up window to appear open.

12. Inside that window, type in set 1 and hit OK.

13. After which, it will fade away.

14. Go back to tools, analyst, act, hit set 1 and the url will load.

15. Go to tools, analyst and hit loop and then click on navigation.

16. At the bottom, click on the word “six” and this will open up six different search engines.

17. Now the test 33 will start on clicking all search engines.

18. Do not adjust any settings. You can minimize the window and still work on your normal computer wok. It will just continue on clicking the search engines and will never interfere with what you do. These are search engines that use up or get a run through this particular program. They are doing this and making payments to improve or increase their numbers so they can have a better chance to compete with google or yahoo.