Posted on January 8th, 2008 by Nathan
@duncanriley said he was working on a big post last night, and this is it. Via techcrunch:
After publishing an invitation to Facebook to join the DataPortability Working Group January 4, we never thought that Facebook would accept it. Today changes everything you’ve ever thought about social-networking data and lock-in before, because today Facebook, Google and [...]
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Posted on December 18th, 2007 by Nathan
I was catching up on my RSS feeds this morning when I saw a post from Seth Godin entitled “People don’t truly care about privacy.” It’s exactly what I’ve been looking for.
In the past, when I’ve been explaining what we are doing at matchmine, [Disclosure: matchmine is my employer] I’ve really pushed the privacy/anonymity angle. [...]
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Posted on November 28th, 2007 by Sarah Wurrey
Today is apparently “Beacon Day†in Wurreyville. I was going to post today (and don’t worry, still will tomorrow) a fun little write up of “Best Holiday Gifts to Buy the Geek in Your Life,†but got sidetracked by a day-long obsession with the Facebook Beacon. It dominated today’s CustomScoop’s PR Blog Jots, and I [...]
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Posted on September 6th, 2007 by Nathan Burke
I’ve been following the privacy and Web 2.0 conversations closely recently, and this week has seen a huge increase in posts dealing with issues of personalization and privacy. A few examples follow:
Public Search Listings on Facebook
This week Facebook announced that they are allowing the search engines to begin indexing public profile information. From their post:
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Posted on August 8th, 2007 by Nathan Burke
I think it’s an almost universally accepted fact that people are sick of the term Web 2.0. It’s one of those buzzwords that has been co-opted to fit just about anything new online in the last couple of years. It reminds me of the feeling you get when you say a word 100 times out [...]
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Posted on July 26th, 2007 by Nathan Burke
Om Malik has a piece today on GigaOM entitled “Can privacy be a premium service?” In the post, Om wonders whether privacy could be a value-added service by companies like Google.
From the post:
From photos uploaded to Flickr, location-based services announcing our presence, alert services like Twitter and Pownce acting as nano-thought transmitters, videocasting via Kyte, [...]
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