According to Bloomberg, about 3 million vanity URLs have been snagged over the weekend:
Facebook Inc., the world’s largest social-networking site, said more than 3 million members registered user names by yesterday morning after it offered people the chance to claim a personalized Web address.
Facebook began accepting registrations at midnight New York time on June 13 [...]
Well it looks like Nokia may be partnering with Facebook in a fairly major way to allow placement of Facebook right onto the main menus of Nokia screens. Pretty important stuff in terms of utility and branding.
Not just in terms of the kind of reach Nokia has in Europe (and beyond), but I think its [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Well, its official. Through a variety of efforts, it looks like Facebook has buckled to the perception that folks don’t like their activities being broadcast across the Facebook network. Mr. O’Neill has the details, but it sounds like that rather than automatically publishing stuff I bought, say that Dancing With The Stars Cardio [...]
Looks like the movement by MoveOn and other privacy groups have really struck a chord with Facebook (Addendum: it looks like a few other organizations, such as Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Digital Democracy are filing motions with the Federal Trade Commission on the basis of privacy violations, which probably has some [...]
