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Tag Archives: Sneak ADtack
The End Of Anonymity?
The Wall Street Journal is so serious about covering the explosion in online data tracking, the paper has even outed itself. From the WSJ’s Weekend Edition: They Know What You’re Shopping For ‘You’re looking at the premium package, right?’ Companies today … Continue reading
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Tagged BMW, Dataium, Sneak ADtack, Wall Street Journal, What They Know
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It’s Good To Live In A Cognoscenti Town
The hardtracking staff at Sneak Adtack has a piece in WBUR’s Cognoscenti today: Facebook Announcements Can Be Confusing. Let Us Explain When you’ve got mail from Facebook, nothing good can come of it. Exhibit Umpteen: The latest Facemail that launched … Continue reading
Jeffrey Rosen’s Excellent Edventure
The stealth marketing underworld is starting to surface above ground. Witness this New York Times Magazine piece by George Washington University law professor Jeffrey Rosen: Who Do Online Advertisers Think You Are? Not long ago, I decided to test how much privacy … Continue reading
Blog New World At The Boston Globe
It’s no secret that newspapers are constantly looking for new ways to generate and increase ad revenues. Today’s Boston Globe has a new one on the hardtracking staff: Wholesale blogvertising in the paper’s G section. The full-page blogvert . . … Continue reading
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Tagged blogvert, blogvertising, Boston Globe, boston.com, Insights, Sneak ADtack
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Facebook Members To Vote On Whether They Can Vote
From our M.C. Escher desk As the hardtracking staff has noted this past week, Facebook is trying to turn the last vestiges of its Faceocracy into a Zuckocracy. Specifically, the billion-strong social network wants to terminate the voting power of its members over changes … Continue reading
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Tagged Facebook, Faceocracy, M.C. Escher, privacy, Sneak ADtack, TechCrunch, vote, Zuckocracy
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Jack Shafer: Fake Press Releases Are A Public Service
Contrarian Reuters media critic Jack Shafer checks in with this latest post: Fake press releases are a public service Yesterday, an enterprising clown used PRWeb to publish a fake press release about the purported purchasing of WiFi provider ICOA by Google for $400 … Continue reading
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Tagged All Things D, Associated Press, fake press releases, ICOA, Jack Schafer, Reuters, Sneak ADtack
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The Digital Tuning Fork
Excellent Neil Swidey piece in Sunday’s Boston Globe Magazine about the rolling focus group that social media networks like Twitter and Facebook have become. Cambridge’s Bluefin Labs decodes social media chatter Facebook users “like” things 2.7 billion times a day. People share … Continue reading
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Tagged Bluefin Labs, Boston Globe, digital tuning fork, Facebook, Neil Swidey, Sneak ADtack, Twitter
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Branded Content, UK Style
From the Sneak Adtack International desk Given all the ads in sheep’s clothing we see here in America, it’s easy to think the US has a monopoly on stealth marketing. Not so, according to this post on The Wall blog in the UK: … Continue reading
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Tagged branded content, content marketing, Content Marketing Association, George Orwell, Sneak ADtack, The Wall, UK
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An Email From Facebook? That Can’t Be Good (III)
All this week the hardtracking staff at Sneak Adtack has been on Facebook like Brown on Williamson. And here’s more fallout from The Grate Facebook Email that changes the site from a sort-of democracy to a flatout Markocracy. Via the Wall Street Journal . . … Continue reading
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Tagged Atlantic Wire, Facebook, frictionless sharing, Instagram, Liz Heron, Markocracy, privacy, Sneak ADtack, Wall Street Journal
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Herald Scoops Globe On Facebook’s Privacy Grab
For the past several days the hardtracking staff at Sneak Adtack has been chronicling Facebook’s new data-sucking policies, which essentially strip control of online information from the Faceherd. The Boston Herald noted the change – in its usual minimalistic way – in … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Facebook, Faceherd, privacy, Sneak ADtack, The Ticker
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