Yesterday, I posted a video that suggested that perhaps a little consolidation needs to happen in the blogosphere. I was not the first. At the time of that recording, it had slipped my mind that Mike Arrington predicted a roll-up of blogs back in March. Regardless, the issue has sparked a very interesting discussion around […]
May 28, 2008
Ad Repping
Just a little bit of housekeeping and a cry for help to our readers… I’ve been desperately (admittedly) looking for means of monetizing this site recently. This site is in the awkward in-between stage of hot property and an long tail property where it cannot be repped by larger ad repping sites like Federated Media […]
December 5, 2007
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 […]
December 5, 2007
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 […]
December 3, 2007
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 […]