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Tues News 2/16 (What You Don’t Know Edition)
Michael Block | February 16th, 2010
Thank you to Amanda for saving my buns by providing the links today. With Presidents’ Day on Monday and with me leaving for New York to take a new Google test, I’ve got quite the busy week for myself. However, whereas that may have prevented a Tues News in the past, steadfast Wpromoter, Amanda Moshier won’t let that be the case this week. She even threw in an extra link! The theme, as I understand it, is “what you don’t know,” spurred by the recent SNAFU with Google Buzz. We were going to go with “the privacy edition” except that I feel like privacy is coming up as an issue week after week. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Well then, let’s get going! Okay, so if you didn’t hear by now, everyone is really, really upset with Google. It turns out that if you had a Google profile and you enabled Buzz, there was a chance that people could see the Gmail addresses of your friends. As it turns out, that’s not a good thing, since many people who use Gmail often use it as their personal account and nobody knew about this until it was already happening. In a world where people get fired for receiving emails with the F-word in them, the privacy and separation of one’s personal email is sacrosanct. Hey Google, next time you rush a product, maybe make sure it’s good enough that people won’t notice this sort of gross oversight! [MarketingPilgrim] Who are Continue reading…
Tags: augmented reality, facebook, Google, google buzz, online privacy, search marketing
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Tues News: 1/12 (A Little Bit Creepy Edition)
Michael Block | January 12th, 2010
The world of search marketing and the Internet in general is a diverse place. There are good guys (kiva.org), bad guys (swoopo.com) and ugly guys (dustindiamond.com). Still, the vast majority of the sites that you deal with fall somewhere in the grey areas**. The most helpful sites, such as Wikipedia, can often lead you astray with bad information. Google is an amazing tool for almost every aspect of your life but you know for a fact that Google probably knows more about you at this point than your Nana. Sure, Ebay no longer has the sketchy stigma it had a decade ago but that doesn’t mean that people have stopped getting ripped off. The Internet may be a wonderful place but, when you really stop to think about it, it can be pretty creepy! This week, in the Tues News, I’ll address three sort of creepy developments in the search engine marketing world that might surprise you. Let’s get going! By now, you know that Google got the cold shoulder from Yelp when it offered half a billion dollars to purchase the restaurant-rating megasite. Well, as the old saying goes: Hell hath no fury like Sergey and Larry scorned. Keep in mind, all you innovators out there, that if Google offers to buy you out, what they are really saying is, “Don’t make us do what you do, only better!” Remember MapQuest? Yeah, neither do I. Google is responding to Yelp’s refusal to be bought by inventing their own Yelp Continue reading…
Tags: facebook, Google, Internet News, online privacy, search marketing, yelp
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Privacy? Forget About It.
Amanda Moshier | September 28th, 2009
You might be sick of hearing about privacy issues. Between concerns about who can see your Facebook profile and whether or not Google is evil, not to mention the awkward power of mobile GPS and the President’s questionable ability to turn off the Internet, the shifting concept of personal privacy is a hot albeit tiresome topic. But I think the latest infringement on personal privacy, as reported here by MediaPost, is worth noting. It’s a little hard to believe. Here is what happened: 1. Rocky Mountain Bank screws up, big time A Rocky Mountain Bank branch in Wilson, Wyoming accidentally sends an email to a random Gmail user. This email contains the account numbers, social security numbers, and other personal information of more than 1,300 bank customers. Oops. 2. Rocky Mountain Bank tries to fix its (huge) mistake Upon realizing their egregious error, the Bank emails the Gmail user requesting he destroy the information. It also asks Google to reveal the identity of the Gmail user and Google, in accordance with its privacy policy, refuses. 3. Rocky Mountain Bank feels ignored and seeks litigious revenge After failing to receive a response from the Gmail user, the bank pulls out the big guns and sues Google to have the user’s Gmail account deactivated. Boom. At this point in the story the bank starts to sound like a woman (or man) scorned. In a world where we are instantly gratified and always connected, a failure to receive a timely response to an Continue reading…
Keeping Facebook Personal
KRONiS | August 24th, 2009
Although the ability to customize ones privacy settings on a granular level is not a new feature, many people still don’t know how to limit access to their Facebook pages. I have heard it time and again, ‘I can’t use Facebook because I don’t want my ________ to see,’ or ‘I can’t add my coworkers because I don’t want them to see my pictures.’ But you can enjoy much more flexibility with Facebook if they simply understood the rules and settings of their privacy pages. To give you some guidance and help you get familiar with Facebook’s privacy features, we’ve outlined a list of three major Facebook rules everyone should learn. 1. Not all friends are friends are created equal Not everyone on your friends list needs access to your entire profile. If you want to limit the access certain family, friends, or coworkers have to your status updates, photos, or wall posts, you cant. To do this, you must create customized friend profiles, also known as ‘Limited Profiles,’ and set the privacy permissions for each list accordingly. To do this well, you should focus on three groups of people: • REAL Friends – who you will show the most information too • Family – Mom, Sister, Cousins, Grandparents, Spouse, etc. • Co-workers and Prospective Employers or Current Employers Once you have these three groups populated, you can then add additional filters to each list to control who sees what on a granular level. Visit the friends’ area of your Continue reading…
Facebook Drama, and What About My Videos?
Amanda Moshier | February 18th, 2009
Hi folks, and happy Wednesday. It’s a short one this week and I hope you found the long weekend as productive and exciting as I did. I spent it finishing up a long overdue freelance project, being stalked by a former resident of the house I currently live in (scary), standing 10-feet away from a mind-blowing Valentine’s Day performance by Mirror/Dash, aka Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of alterna-rock legend Sonic Youth, and taking a trip to Guitar Center to replace my DJ headphones in time for my next gig. Let me tell you, it’s a dangerous place that Guitar Center and I’m lucky I made it out of there with *just* headphones. The Mirror/Dash show was amazing. It happened at the MoCA opening for Dan Graham’s retrospective “Beyond,” and was meant for MoCA members only but I managed to score to comp tix and I’m so glad I did. Not only did I impress my Valentine with my uber-cool connections and totally indie taste in music (yes!), I also got the chance to take some crazy low-res footage of the band using my camera phone, which I later uploaded to YouTube and Facebook. If you are at all a fan of experimental, grunge, noise rock, and the like, you may want to check it out here (and here, and here). Anyhow, I figure now is a good time to discuss the news about Facebook and the changes made to its Terms of Service (TOS), changes which were implemented without Continue reading…
Tags: facebook, Facebook Beacon, Facebook TOS, Facebook user content, online privacy
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