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More and more sites I run into these days are offering a way for me to log-in using Facebook. That’s cool, if it means I don’t have to fill out yet another registration form. But the permission pages that come up sometimes are so scary that I decline the offer. This happened again with me [...]
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Even if it’s in somewhat mock seriousness, The Daily Show’s Rally To Restore Sanity has me fired up! But tapping into the official news about the event through social media, well, that’s been a bit disappointing. The Rally & Twitter When I hit the rally’s web site the day after it was announced, it pointed [...]
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Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher interviewed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on stage today at the D8 conference. Reading the live blogging of Walt trying to get a clear answer from Mark about privacy settings, I couldn’t help but flash to that that great courtroom scene in “A Few Good Men.” What if Mark suddenly went [...]
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Mark and his team have built an incredible tool which has customized every website out there for individuals. It has always been the case since the dawning of the World Wide Web that we would all go to the same site and get the same information. The flip side of this privacy story that some [...]
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Over the past few months, both Facebook and Google had followed an alarming trend of opting people into things rather than letting them chose themselves. Fair to say, I’ve had enough of all that. I don’t think I’m alone. Let’s recap: Google’s Personalized Results: The “New Normal” That Deserves Extraordinary Attention covers how last December, [...]
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If you were under a rock yesterday, Facebook announced new Facebook Like buttons that, according to founder Mark Zuckerberg, will sprout on a billion pages by, well, now. But what about all those Facebook Share buttons that we were told to put on all our pages. Pull them down? Keep them up? So far, it [...]
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Today, I logged into Facebook and got a huge, honking message saying they needed my birthday as a “security measure.” Then I got a second overlay message popping up right on top of that to make clear I really needed to enter it. Color me confused. I thought Facebook already had my birthday. In fact, [...]
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I came close to killing my Facebook account this week. As I delved even deeper to the supposed privacy I have or don’t have on the service, I wondered why on earth I even have an account at all. And I kept thinking of Anil Dash’s post earlier this year, Google’s Microsoft Moment. Was this [...]
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Facebook’s challenge to me (and others), as it has tried to compete with Twitter, has been that so much of the user data it wants to share with the world as content to attract visitors and eyeballs has been tied up behind the the privacy barriers set by its own users. How do you get [...]
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I’ve been bemused watching Facebook over the past few months try to get some of the Twitter mojo by focusing more on “status updates.” I tend to be with John Battelle that “Twitter is a pencil.” IE — Twitter works because it does one thing well. Facebook is complicated — it’s Photoshop, as John put [...]
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