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Zuckerberg, Quit Insulting Our Intelligence
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook has taken one more step in the Beacon war. As we’ve noted, Facebook is wrong to not fully make Beacon an opt-in program, partner companies are wrong for releasing customer data to Facebook and by the way I made a Firefox extension that will help consumers know…
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Toyota y sus Comerciales Poco Eticos
La semana pasada escribà un artÃculo sobre Toyota y el uso adecuado de la reputación de sus productos. Esta semana, Toyota vuelve a ser el tema… pero esta vez por el uso de publicidad poco ética. Cada persona, compañÃa o producto tiene lo que llamamos una cuenta de confianza (trust account). Hay acciones que resultan…
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Freakin' Beacon Firefox Extension
I took the dive into Firefox extension development today whipping out an answer to the Beacon is broke sentiment that is popping up all over the net, including here on this blog. This extension puts a little icon in the status bar that lights up in blue when on a page using Beacon technology. In…
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Companies Using Beacon Will Undoubtedly be Sued
Privacy policies. They are the walls of separation that protect users from the over-indulging nature of companies and provide strict legal protections for both the user and the company. Privacy policies are generally penned by lawyers who like writing obscure documents that do these things. Facebook Beacon, as we talked about, is a major privacy…
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The Only Answer to Facebook Beacon is a Deleted Account
Marc Orchant, the other day, announced he was deleting his Facebook profile. For him, it came down to a matter of usefulness. I am considering also deleting my Facebook profile for completely different reasons – Facebook Beacon. In case you’ve been under a rock for the past few weeks, Beacon is the program that Facebook…
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Marc Orchant Suffers Massive Heart Attack
This is a repost from the original Blognation post. — At some time between 7:30 and 8:10 AM on Sunday Morning December 2nd, 2007, Marc Orchant, my fellow author on this blog, as well as one of my closest friends sustained a massive heart attack while working in his home office. At this time Marc…
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Facebook Apaga el Faro
Al parecer, Facebook ha decidido modificar su programa Beacon (Faro) ante las protestas por violación a la privacidad de los usuarios que han surgido desde su implementación. El programa Beacon permite a los participantes enviar notificaciones a Facebook sobre las activdades de los usuarios en sus websites. Por ejemplo, si compramos unas botas en Overstock.com,…