Posts Tagged ‘Social Networks’

Apple’s Ping – Great new spam tool!

Apple's Ping - Great new spam tool!

Well done, Apple. Not only does Ping not add anything of use to the social space other than providing you a great new way to sell new music, but the first of your featured artists’ profiles on which I happen to click — Yo-Yo Ma — gives me this perfect example of broken social. Sure, [...]

Sep 02, 2010 | Categories:Blog | Tags: , , , | View Comments

Surprising no one, Facebook and others send private data to advertisers

Facebook and Others Caught Sending User Data to Advertisers Wow. Tough to say you really care about user privacy when you’re handing really private data over to advertisers. As an advertiser? I don’t even want this kind of information. The Journal found that Facebook went farther than most in sharing identifiable data, by sending the [...]

May 20, 2010 | Categories:Blog | Tags: , , , | View Comments

More sites investing in their own online assets for promotion

Global ad industry grapples with new spending trends | Reuters This is a message from the immediate future for small to medium-sized businesses, too. Big companies are recognizing the power of their own sites and the agility they have in creating content they control, and they’re spending money accordingly. The same can be true for [...]

May 13, 2010 | Categories:Blog | Tags: , , , , , , | View Comments

“Facebook’s Gone Rogue” editorial at Wired.com this morning offers thoughts on an open alternative

"Facebook's Gone Rogue" editorial at Wired.com this morning offers thoughts on an open alternative

Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative | Epicenter | Wired.com Is there a substantive alternative to Facebook on the horizon? Google? Anyone? Hullo? So in December, with the help of newly hired Beltway privacy experts, it reneged on its privacy promises and made much of your profile information public by default. That includes [...]

May 08, 2010 | Categories:Blog, Features | Tags: , , , , , | View Comments