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Top Chef: You Gotta Try Boston!
Headline of full-page ad in Sunday’s Boston Globe: HELP BRING TOP CHEF TO BOSTON Obligatory button: The ad is the most visible part of a campaign launched by Digitas and Mayor Tom Menino to bring Season 10 of Bravo’s popular … Continue reading
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Tagged Bravo, Digitas, Facebook, Mick Darling's Posterous, Tom Menino, Top Chef, Twitter
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Invasion Of The Data Snatchers (Google Edition)
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
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Tagged Apple Inc., Google, iPhone, Julia Angwin, misAPPropriation, Sneak ADtack, Twitter, Wall Street Journal
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Twitter’s MisAPPropriation Of Your Private Data
The Los Angeles Times gets this week’s Long Subhed Award (pat. pending) for this piece (via Politico’s Playbook): Smartphone apps dial up privacy worries Undisclosed gathering of smartphone users’ address book data by Twitter and other social networking companies brings heightened scrutiny by … Continue reading
The Nym Wars, Appendix B
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
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Tagged Battle Nym of the Republic, Bits, Facebook, Google, Google Plus, New York Times, nym wars, Potemkin Internet, Sneak ADtack, Twitter
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New “Google Search Plus” Yields Unintended Results
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
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Tagged betanews, faceless Web, Facelook Web, Google, Googleniks, Reuters, Search Engine Land, Search Plus Your World, Sneak ADtack, Twitter, Washington Post
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GOP Social Studies
It’s not that retail politics is for losers in the Republican presidential primary race, but the candidates stumping hardest in Iowa and New Hampshire – Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry – are generally polling lowest. (Exception that … Continue reading
So How Did State Farm Get A Free Ad On Campaign Outsider?
When the hardworking staff went to grab this post to scale out on Twitter, we discovered this at the bottom: No idea how it got there, no idea where it went (haven’t seen it again). Certainly haven’t seen any money for it. … Continue reading
Keith Olbermann: Like Rolling Stone
Your weekend assignment, splendid readers, is to compare and contrast – in clear idiomatic English – the Keith Olbermann profile in the Sunday New York Times Magazine and the Keith Olbermann interview in the, er, current edition of Rolling Stone. … Continue reading
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Tagged caricature, David Carr, Keith Olbermann, Mark Binelli, New York Times, Rolling Stone, Stanley McChrystal, Twitter
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France Says ‘Non’ to Broadcast Mentions of Twitter, Facebook
From the Sydney Morning Herald: F-word ban on French radio, TV PARIS: How do you say Facebook and Twitter in French? You don’t – at least, not if you are on radio or television, where mention of them is banned unless … Continue reading
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Tagged broadcast ban, Facebook, France, PRI, stealth advertising, Sydney Morning Herald, The World, Twitter
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