Monthly Archives: December 2007

Warning: Blogging To Continue Be Light …

With a recent death in the family, and an otherwise sick child, blogging will be light for a little while.
In the meantime, please check out the following blogs/ sites:
Allen Stern’s CenterNetworks
Mat Ingram’s blog
BlogRunner: Tech
Marshall Kirkpatrick’s blog
Aaron Brazell’s Technosailor

One Last Late Thought On Facebook’s Beacon Buckling Down

Funny how being just a few days blogging is like being a *weeks* late, huh? :)
Anyway, it sounds like a lot has been said about Facebook’s Beacon doing The Seemingly Right Thing by making Beacon 100% opt out, with a surprising amount being said by some of the larger mainstream media organizations.
Its late, but I [...]

Here’s Your Chance To Beat Loren Feldman Senseless

Or, get your candy ass handed to you.  Loren of 1938 media is, from what I remember, a pretty tall guy.
Anyway, Loren’s looking for a Web 2.0 fight club.  If you’re looking to hand him some two-fisted justice, give him a ping. :)

Facebook Bottom Line Takes Hit With Beacon Boondoggle

As the ever-pithy Henry Blodget says:
“You can dismiss whiny “pundits” all you want, but when major advertisers you touted as being charter members of the program decide you jerked them around, you had better start apologizing in a hurry”
I wondered if Facebook’s privacy issues around its Social Ads and Beacon would hit the bottom [...]

Om Malik Was Right: With Facebook, Your Opt In Status Doesn’t Make A Whit Of Difference.

In the ongoing Privacy Boondogle that is Facebook, it seems some hard work by Stefan Berteau at Computer Associates has shown that with respect to Facebook’s Beacon, it really doesn’t matter what your opt in status means with respect to your data.
Om Malik queried some weeks ago when Social Ads was delivered about the possibility [...]