Tag Archives: Google

Reports Of Facebook’s Death Have Been, Like, Greatly Exaggerated

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Begin with Simon Dumenco’s column in this week’s edition of Advertising Age: It’s Curtains for Google! And Facebook! And Tumblr! And … The tech-startup sky is falling! The tech-incumbent sky is falling! The entire tech sky is falling! No, seriously, I’m pretty … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Advertising Age, Boston Herald, Facebook, Facebook mobile, Faceluck, Forbes, Google, New York Times, Raakhee Mirchandani, Simon Dumenco, Social Outcast | 1 Comment

Online Track ADtack!

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

You have no idea how much you’re being stalked on the Internet. But the Atlantic does. From Alexis Madrigal’s piece in the Atlantic’s February edition: I’m Being Followed: How Google—and 104 Other Companies—Are Tracking Me on the Web This morning, if you … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alexis Madrigal, Collusion, Google, Huffington Post, Microsoft, Mozilla, New York Times, Sneak ADtack, The Atlantic | Leave a comment

Attack Of The Googletron

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

There’s bad news and worse news about Internet privacy these days. The bad news (via the Boston Globe): As the online search giant Google Inc. prepares to change the way it uses information about Internet users, regulators and consumer watchdogs worry … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bloomberg News, Boston Globe, Ed Markey, Electronic Privacy Information Center, EPIC, FTC, Google, Googletron, Sneak ADtack, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, Washington Post | Leave a comment

Bar(ack)ing Online Privacy Invasion

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

The Obama administration has been far more aggressive than its predecessor in protecting consumer privacy, as witness its latest initiative (via Politico’s Playbook): Obama unveils online privacy plan The Obama administration is taking a two-pronged approach to online privacy, calling on Congress to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barack Obama, Computerworld, consumer privacy bill of rights, Facebook, Google, online privacy, Politico Playbook, Sneak ADtack | Leave a comment

Invasion Of The Data Snatchers (Google Edition)

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Yesterday it was Twitter engaging in misAPPropriation of smartphone users’ address book data. Now it’s Google end-running privacy settings to monitor its search engine users. From Friday’s Wall Street Journal: Google’s iPhone Tracking Web Giant, Others Bypassed Apple Browser Settings for Guarding Privacy … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Apple Inc., Google, iPhone, Julia Angwin, misAPPropriation, Sneak ADtack, Twitter, Wall Street Journal | 5 Comments

The Nym Wars, Appendix B

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

As the Sneak ADtackniks have previously noted, the nym wars are all about retaining anonymity online (in the form of pseudonyms) versus having some sort of digital passport like a Facebook sign-in. Now comes a new front in the Battle Nym of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Battle Nym of the Republic, Bits, Facebook, Google, Google Plus, New York Times, nym wars, Potemkin Internet, Sneak ADtack, Twitter | Leave a comment

Google Minus

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Google’s newly announced changes to its privacy policy illustrate two essential facts of life: 1) Internet privacy is fading away like the Cheshire Cat, leaving only a big smile (not yours) behind. 2) Google’s got you by the short hairs. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Don't Be Evil, Google, Mark (Datasucka) Zuckerberg, NPR, privacy policy, Sneak ADtack, The Two-Way | Leave a comment

New “Google Search Plus” Yields Unintended Results

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Google is turning the faceless Web into the Facelook Web with its new “personal search tool linked wih social media.” From the Washington Post: Google is taking Googling yourself to a whole new level, by folding users’ personal data into Google search results. The personalized … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged betanews, faceless Web, Facelook Web, Google, Googleniks, Reuters, Search Engine Land, Search Plus Your World, Sneak ADtack, Twitter, Washington Post | 2 Comments

Our First Quadrennial Hawkie Awards

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff is pleased to announce Campaign Outsider’s Hawkie Awards, a quadrennial exercise in highlighting the most ridiculous aspects of the Iowa caucuses, outside of the fact that they have any impact at all. Regardless, nunc est bibendum: I’ll … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ABC, Gentle Giant, Google, Hawkie Awards, Iowa, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Newtron, quarter horse, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, The Note, USA Today | 2 Comments

Tying Your Credit Card And Web Activity Together? Priceless.

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Forget the merger of Amazon and Google into Googlezon. Here’s a combo that has more immediate potential for harm. From the Wall Street Journal: Using Credit Cards to Target Web Ads The two largest credit-card networks, Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc., are pushing into a new … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amazon, Google, Googlezon, Jay Rockefeller, MasterCard, MediaPost, VISA, Wall Street Journal | Leave a comment