Archive for the ‘beacon’ Category

facebook bites the pr bullet on beacon, but it lives on because in the end users don’t appear to be bothered

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Whether his words or his team's, Zuckerberg eats some crow today via the corporate facebook blog and apologizes for essentially some poor product decisions in Beacon. Responding to some critics, Facebook will offer a global opt-out for Beacon. As I posted previously, Beacon already offered a ...

facebook’s beacon program isn’t the spawn of the devil - why you’ll grow to love it too

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Based on all the hyperbole being spewed about Facebook's recently-launched Beacon program from asinine FTC complaints to political activism run amok (and that's my liberal friend Scott's point of view) one would think that Facebook's Beacon program was the spawn of the devil. I've heard creepy, nightmare, scary, invasive ...