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Spankings (or prayers) for Mark Zuckerberg

To all my praying friends, you’ll want to spare a moment for Mark Zuckerberg (CEO of Facebook) because he’s about to get his ass spanked. First, the user community is thrashing him over privacy. Essentially, Facebook intentionally reneged on a deal and exposed people without their permission.  This was no techno web hacking accident. They intended [...]

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Step Zero

Socially responsible businesses won’t oppress their community by exceeding a level of acceptable promotion. We’ll put up with a little promotion, but there’s a line not to cross. It’s as basic as someone jabbing their business card in your hand before even getting your name. Yet, there’s an increasing number of businesses with an equivalent approach in [...]

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Broadcasting an Illusion of Participation

It’s not about a conversation at this point, or a relationship, it’s just broadcasting.

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Microsoft/Facebook after Google’s Lunch

Microsoft's Office Online ("Web Office") will be offered via Facebook to one-up Google's initiatives. The product offering will be for small businesses with primarily local client bases. Imagine this solution to be something like an extranet for your company via Facebook with password, security, group features, doc storage, and of course, Microsoft Office online.

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Facebook’s “Verified Applications”

Today Facebook launched a new Application directory and introduced a certification called “Verified Applications”.  A Verified Application is one that has been subjected to some additional scrutiny by Facebook. I wrote that we needed this back in 2007, and although today is a step in a good direction, we’ve a long way to go. Today’s “Verified [...]

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