Links Archive for December 2007
Why Social Networks Stink - Columns by PC Magazine
Sunday 2 December 2007 #
The sheen on the ‘social networking’ phenomenon seems to be rubbing off slightly as people come to realize that these companies—shock! horror!—want to make money from their users in order to stay afloat. This has been particularly prominent with Facebook’s new ‘Beacon’ application, which records everything that a user buys over the Web and then advertises it to the world via the user’s profile as a quasi-recommendation of the individual products.
The Laboratorium: Self-Presentation Fiasco at Facebook
Sunday 2 December 2007 #
More on Facebook’s ‘Beacon’ privacy disaster.
