Facebook (Stupidly) Takes the Heat from Moveon, while Yahoo and Ebay laugh to the bank!
So we all know about the Facebook Debacle with Beacon – and the horrible mistakes stupid 24 year olds make (We really do love you Mark Zuckerburg) it’s just that young kids shouldn’t be running $15 billion dollar businesses.
Moveon.org and the EFF have been decrying the privacy issues. As I’ve stated in a previous post, I think that behavioral targeting is inevitable and coming soon. In fact, I wasn’t happy that Mike Morgan from Tacoda was being apologetic about it.
Is the LA Times Getting Closer to “Getting It”?
This is a follow up to my first post on the LA Times’s efforts to go “Web 2.0″, after meeting with Eric Ulken at a blogger’s event.
First off, a little disclaimer… My site is ugly, doesn’t convert, and definitely is not “cool”. So I really should have no right to criticize other companies’ efforts to “get it”. Especially since the LA Time site isn’t to badly designed. It has a pretty minimalist design, and very easy to find links.
A Sad Day – A Legal Decision Puts BroadFirst Out Of Business
Sheri Archidiacono in Sedo’s Newsletter (they don’t have it available online) sais this about “Website Terms and Conditions are Considered a Contract”:
“In the case of Southwest Airlines Co. v. BoardFirst, LLC, a Texas court held that a user of a website was bound by the terms and conditions of that website where the user has actual knowledge of such terms and conditions.
The Plaintiffs, Southwest airlines maintained a first come, first served, open seating policy, where passengers are arranged in groups. The Defendant, Boardfirst.com was an internet company that provided a service to Southwest customers whereby for a fee, a passenger could check in early and BoardFirst would attempt to get the passenger into the first boarding group.
Could Consumers Really Accept Behavioral Targeting?
I am a regular reader of Mediapost’s many daily newsletters. It really allows me to cover the industry on a day-to-day basis, as well as get the thoughts of some of the foremost decision makers in our industry. (I highly suggest that you sign up.)
Anyway, so today, we have a post from Dave Morgan, the founder of Tacoda. His claim was that despite their “highly publicized” opt out campaign, not many people took advantage.
A little Break – Great Post by Jeff Quipp…
To be honest, the social networking environment has kind of overwhelmed me. I try to keep my head above the water in the online “Wild West Fields” of Paid and Natural Search, and all the mergers, aqcuisitions and startups that happen daily. Add to that my new job – that of being involved in “branding”, when my background is in direct marketing online… social media optimization and marketing has been left behind.
Yees, I do have a twitter, facebook and linkedin account… I also have a dandelife account (too lazy to find the URL!) and many more… I have a stumbleupon, digg, delicious, and many other accounts… but I rarely use them… because I simply haven’t budgeted time.