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 [...]
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 [...]
Looks like the A-lister brigade is out in force against the opt-in lunacy that is Facebook Beacon. Or, so it would seem, anyway, with Doc Searls, Dave Winer, and Jason Calacanis (and a few others) making some good ol’ impassioned pleas To Do The Right Thing, as this kind of default opt-in status is [...]
As a bit of a follow up to a post I did some weeks ago about controlling the kind of information that gets back to Facebook via Facebook Beacon, it turns out that, in a similar vein, it may in fact be difficult to get Facebook to delete all of your information once you decided [...]
So its fairly breaking news, but Marc Zuckerberg has just outlined Facebook’s best attempt at monetization, which involves three separate entities — allowing advertisers to build their own pages, facilitating the engagement between Facebook fans and those advertisers (and the promotion thereof on their own profiles), and perhaps most importantly, something called Social Ads.
Social [...]
Duncan Riley reports that Alibaba has had the typical — or perhaps, more than typical — run up of a hotly expected internet IPO, with its stock price shooting up around 160% of its initial offering.
The big obvious winner is Yahoo, who controls a controlling 40% stake in the parent group of this Chinese enterprise-level [...]
