Category Archives for Privacy
★ Facebook is Accelerating its Commoditization
We are seeing more and more industry leaders move away from Facebook — ReadWriteWeb has a good write-up: A number of high-profile web industry leaders have quit Facebook this week, a turn of events that’s sure to heat up conversation … Continue reading
★ The Facebook Alienation: Pleasing the Wrong Stakeholders
The Facebook Privacy debate continues to rage around the blogosphere. And while I think we’re all going to get tired of this endless debate soon and move on, I’m now also convinced that this will not be without consequences for … Continue reading
★ Facebook & Google: very different Big Brothers
As Facebook continues to spread its tentacles around the web, they are increasingly being compared to Google not only as a potential competitor in online advertising, but also on the privacy aspects of their services. Venturebeat, to take one example, … Continue reading
★ Facebook’s evolution: brilliant but borderline
Some more thoughts on the recent Facebook moves, triggered by a good question on Google Buzz by Chris Myles. The F8 announcements are a brilliant move, strategically. Facebook is fully leveraging its core assets (social graph, personal characteristics, attention data) … Continue reading
★ On Granularity and Controlled Distribution of Information
This post is a follow-up to my previous article about Privacy which you may want to read first, On Privacy in a World of Multiple Sunshine Tests. In that post, I explained how increased transparency online would make our daily … Continue reading