Google Buzz debuts with Twitter, Flickr connectivity

Google is making a fresh attempt at social media with Buzz, a Gmail-based application that lets users keep tabs on their contacts while sharing updates, images and links. The company says the service will let users combine content from other sites, including Twitter and Flickr, while streamlining content for quick and easy reading. The service is hampered by a lack of connectivity with Facebook, Samuel Axon notes, especially as Facebook gears up to launch a webmail service of its own.  Mashable

24/7 Real Media, Compete to team up on research

WPP Group’s 24/7 Real Media ad network is teaming up with online research shop Compete to offer clients data from the latter’s consumer panels. The partnership is intended to be a kind of “third party guarantee” to clients that ads are reaching their intended audiences.  Mediaweek