Google Gives Buzz Control Back to Its Users

Barely two months after its launch, Google has rejiggered Buzz.

The platform, which marries social networking and collaborative working--or rather, sets the two ideas on a collision course--was originally set up to automatically add friends to its users' pages without their say-so. This attracted a lot of complaints, since it essentially showed your contacts to the world even if you didn't want that to be the case. Take, for example, the case of Andrew McLaughlin, Deputy Chief Technology...