Businesses try to broaden their audience through geological platforms, “which attach real-world locations to phones.”

Las year, Twitter launched ‘geolocation for tweets’ which locates trendy topics. Now, Google is launching Buzz which supports location-tagging options. The media platform makes a list of nearby places, and users can read information about these places from people in and out their social network. These platforms are prominent because it is an easy and free way to advertise businesses.

Other geolocation platforms are Foursquare, MyTown, BightKite, and Loopt.

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Google Buzz is 4 days old but has created a lot of 'buzz' itself. The biggest concern people had was with privacy. Google Buzz automatically set up accounts with followers. It made your most contacted connections follow you, w/o your permission. With the new changes, there will now be an "auto-suggest" rather than "auto-follow" among other things. Read more here.

As it stands Google probably knows more about your current behavior than your mother does. At which point does connecting the dots (politely setting up your contacts that you will most likely contact anyway) cross the line? Some people believe that if this information is posted online, then it can not be considered "private" to begin with. Still others believe it is the principle of choice that matters.

However you feel about the violation of privacy, you have to applaud Google for moving as swiftly as it did to fix the issues that many people complained about.