Archive for November, 2007
Full Facebook Beacon Details
9 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford November 30th, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook News. The firestorm engulfing Facebooks Beacon Advertising Product appears to be under control. Facebook has just announced earlier this evening the full details of changes to how beacon works. I blogged a few days back that they would most likely make changes to how Beacon works.
Facebook always pushes the envelope and asks for forgiveness […]
Facebook Beacon Aftershocks Causing Groundshift?
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford November 29th, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook News. Is Facebook considering changes to Beacon? According to Business Week; this is the case.
This does not surprise me in the least bit. As a person that is deeply involved in the facebook developer community; the one constant from facebook is change. It is common knowledge to developers (not most reporters or users) that almost […]
Facebook Fixes Beacon. Sort Of.
5 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford November 28th, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook News. FACEBOOK FIX MAKES IT EASIER FOR USERS TO OPT OUT OF BEACON. There is nice detailed article from The San Jose Mercury News reporter Mark Boslet. Facebook fixes ad-sharing glitch.
We had a long discussion about the issues surrounding this hotbed of a topic and the potential implications on Tuesday.
Here is a short excerpt […]
Facebook Beacon Issues Still Sizzling Like Bacon
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford November 27th, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook News.It seems that the facebook Beacon advertising product privacy issues just won’t go away. This is in no small part to the left of center folks at Moveon.org that have made this their latest rallying cry. They are obviously well connected to the media based on their connections in the political arena. The articles in […]
Facebook And The Privacy Non-Issue
13 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford November 26th, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook News.Ever since Facebook launched it’s new Product “Beacon” which tell your friends something that you purchased; privacy zealots have been in a tizzy in the news. The tizzy is similar to the internal facebook community members tizzy that happened when facebook opened up the News Feed about a year ago (users got over it and […]
Be Santa on Facebook this Christmas
3 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford November 24th, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook Applications. Rating:
Be Santa is a new facebook app that was just launched on facebook. This fun application allows you to send virtual gifts to your friends, write a letter to Santa, or actually send real gifts. This facebook app is from the Guys over at Dank Apps (they recently received funding From Bay Partners […]
Facebook VS. Google OpenSocial
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford November 14th, 2007 in Facebook, OpenSocial.Facebook VS. Google OpenSocial: There is lot’s of buzz going around about Google’s OpenSocial API in the developer community. There are many philosophical differences here between the two. I really do not care to take sides or get into a pissing match about which is better or worse or why just yet.
The bottom line here […]
Share Projects Easily on Facebook
4 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford November 13th, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, facebook Business. Rating:
You can now share projects with a team of friends on facebook. There is a new application that has just come online at facebook that will allow you to actually share project files with team members that you invite. Projects by divShare is easy to use within facebook.
The application allows you to easily […]
Radical Buy Challenges eBay on Facebook
8 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford November 11th, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook Applications. Rating:
Radical Buy Challenges eBay: There is a new facebook application called Radical Buy. It allows users to list and sell items on facebook. The interesting thing here is it offers commissions to people that sell the item for you. This is brilliant and will really tap the social network of facebook. This […]
Facebook Business Users Perspective
5 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford November 11th, 2007 in Facebook, facebook Business.Business and Facebook: How do business professionals use Facebook?: A Facebook Business Users Perspective. While attending Barcamp in San Diego I presented a session on Facebook. I spoke with about 30 individual business people and asked them how they used facebook. The responses ranged from “I don’t have an account” to “I think it is […]
