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Google Buzz hasn't been out of the tech headlines all week: from the excitement around its launch to subsequent fixes to address privacy concerns, the web has been abuzz about Buzz.
But what's the place for Buzz among existing social networks? Does it compete more directly with Twitter, or Facebook? Is it an entirely new approach to status updates that can co-exist and integrate with these tools?
If Twitter is the town square, what is Google Buzz?
That's the topic of my CNN column this week.