Bitten by Sarah Jessica Parker in Google Checkout
You can buy “Sarah Jessica Parker” but you can’t get Bitten by her. Sarah Jessica Parker (the keyword phrase, not the actress) can be found in Google Checkout Trends. “Bitten by Sarah Jessica Parker?” You’re out of luck with Google Labs’ new tool. The revenue for “Sarah Jessica Parker” is, according to Google, “(Price x [...]
Google Frowns On Rogers Injection
Rogers Internet in Canada provides its subscribers with an advisory when they are approaching their account’s bandwidth limits, by injecting that notice into a web page they are viewing.The example of Rogers dropping a notice onto Google’s homepage began making the rounds yesterday. Some people called it a threat to net neutrality, which seems a [...]
Facebook Alters Beacon program
Facebook has faced objections from users and privacy groups since it launched the Beacon program earlier this month. The controversial program notifies a user’s Facebook friends when the user buys a product at, or in some cases just visits, a partner site. Facebook has apparently seen the light, making changes to the Beacon program to [...]
Facebook To Cry Uncle Over Beacon
Sources say Facebook is near to announcing changes to its Beacon marketing platform after pressure from privacy advocates over the last week. MoveOn launched its campaign the Monday before Thanksgiving and has since signed up 50,000 Facebook members incensed about having their online purchases and activities outside the social network published via News Feeds. Initially, [...]
Privacy Group Takes on Facebook
The latest advertiser to use Facebook’s new Social Ads platform may not have been the kind of marketer the company was hoping for. Privacy watchdog MoveOn.org has posted an online petition demanding that Facebook respect the privacy of users by making it easier to opt out of the “Beacon Ads” program, where actions Facebook users [...]
MoveOn Launches Campaign Against Facebook
Facebook is busy ruining Christmas, and that’s the least of the worries. Violations of user privacy are higher on the worry list, and MoveOn.org has launched an online petition and ad campaign against Facebook’s brand new "Beacon" program.Recently launched, Facebook Beacon is a marketing service that allows marketers to publish "stories" via Facebook News Feeds. [...]
Yahoo announces Fireeagle
Michael Arrington at Techcrunch reported that Yahoo is announcing fireeagle, which is a new service for obtaining geo-location information, storing it, and making it available to other web applications. This is a technology coming out of Yahoo Brickhouse, a semi-autonomous Yahoo group focused on new product development. Evidently, the whole system is permission based, which [...]
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