Buzz is outstanding
"Then there’s the company’s privacy-lite, horribly creepy Buzz"
Idiot's phrase, really! There were only privacy complaints with Buzz at the very beginning, Google applied fixes immediately. Buzz is an outstanding product, which gets better and better. Thanks too threaded conversations, it is a significantly better tool than Twitter. Twitter is good only for broadcasting your message, but quite inconvenient for discussions. Buzz works for both purposes. For me as for many other people it's becoming a major source of information and a major discussion tool.