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Why the WSJ Is a Great Newspaper (Mark Zuckerberg Grows Up Edition)
From Monday’s Wall Street Journal front page: For Mark Zuckerberg, Tumult and Turnaround MENLO PARK, Calif.— Mark Zuckerberg needed help. Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering in May 2012 had been a mess. And after turning a website born in his college dorm room into … Continue reading
Facehook: Ads You Like It (Or Not)
From our Two Steps Forward, One Step Back desk Facebook vampire Mark (Data) Suckahberg is at it again, now messing with your messaging feature, described here in typical Facebookese. Translation for the Facebook-impaired, via PR Newser: Facebook To Let Strangers, Brands Send You … Continue reading
An Email From Facebook? That Can’t Be Good
The hardworking staff received this email from Facebook today: Okay. For starters: 1) Any Facebook reference to privacy means you’ll have less. 2) Protest all you want, but Facebook is a master of two steps forward, one step back. 3) … Continue reading
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Tagged Data Suckah of All Time, Facebook, Facebook cookies, Facebook Timeline, Mark Zuckerberg
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The Face(book) Of Online Privacy’s Future
The big Mark Zuckerberg takeout in New York magazine is getting lots of attention, but even more interesting is this sidebar, headlined “No, Facebook Has Not Already Peaked.” Nut graf: There’s a technology called OAuth. When you go to Spotify, or comment on … Continue reading
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Tagged Boy Billionaire, datasuck, Facebook, Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg, Netflix, New York, OAuth, Spotify
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Hey, FaceShnook: You’re Being Pixel-Pocketed!
The latest installment in the Wall Street Journal’s invaluable (and Pulitzer Prize-worthy) What They Know series is a wake-up call for every one of the 800 million+ Facebookniks. Selling You on Facebook Many popular Facebook apps are obtaining sensitive information about users—and users’ friends—so … Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You’re An Idiot
Facebook founder/weasel Mark Zuckerberg is once again insulting our intelligence by trying to mask his intelligence-gathering about us. From Friday’s New York Times: Your Life on Facebook, in Total Recall Remember those karaoke videos from three years ago that somehow … Continue reading
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Tagged Facebook, Faceshnooks, Mark Zuckerberg, New York Times, Timeline
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Yankees’ Zuck Edition)
Social network behemoth Facebook is opening its first East Coast office in New York. Not Boston. Which drew radically different coverage in the local dailies. From the Boston Globe’s Business Daily Briefing: NEW YORK – Facebook will open an engineering … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, East Coast office, Evil Empire, Facebook, Joe Sciacca, Mark Zuckerberg, Yankees' Zuck
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Facebook Is Totally Stalking Me
Memo to Mark Zuckerberg: Get out of my Facebook! Enough with the emails saying, “Here’s some activity you may have missed on Facebook.” No, I haven’t missed it – I’ve IGNORED it. There’s a difference. Unfortunately, Facebook marks are just … Continue reading