The fine line between advertising and recommendations  —  Facebook Beacon has the ‘Net riled up over what many see as an invasion of their privacy.  A Wall Street Journal article gives a good description of how the opt-out process works: … The problem seems to be that like everything else on Facebook …

Source:   Between […]

The Secret Strategies Behind Many “Viral” Videos  —  This guest post was written by Dan Ackerman Greenberg, co-founder of viral video marketing company The Comotion Group and lead TA for the Stanford Facebook Class.  Dan will graduate from the Stanford Management Science & Engineering Masters program in June.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Dan Ackerman Greenberg
Link:   […]

The Word is out: Microsoft will face online fight on core software  —  The co-founder of Hotmail, the web-based e-mail service bought by Microsoft for $400 million a decade ago, is challenging the American software giant’s core $20 billion (£9.7 billion) office desktop business.

Source:   Times of London
Author:   Alice Miles
Link:   http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business…

Tim Berners-Lee: From World Wide Web to Giant Global Graph  —  On this Thanksgiving morning in the U.S., the Facebook Beacon storm continues to rage (Techmeme).  It’s simply growing pains for the social graph.  In fact, the social graph (which Mark Zuckerberg defines as the network …

Source:   Between the Lines
Author:   Dan Farber
Link:   […]

Thanksgiving 2007 from Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Dogpile & The Search Industry  —  Today is one of my most favorite holidays, Thanksgiving!  This will probably be our only post today, but I wanted to share the logos and search forum threads from around the search industry.

Source:   Search Engine Roundtable
Author:   Barry Schwartz
Link:   http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/015421.html

Thanksgiving Search Engine Logos & Off For The Day  —  Search Engine Land is taking the Thanksgiving holiday off, and best wishes to all those celebrating today.  We’ll be back with regular coverage tomorrow.  Search engines are celebrating with special logos like those above.

Source:   Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
Author: […]

Giant Global Graph  —  Well, it has been a long time since the last blog.  So many topics, so little time.  Some talks, a couple of Design Issues articles, but no blog.  To dissipate the worry of expectation of quality, I resolve to lower the bar.  More about what I had for breakfast.

Source:   Decentralized […]

Is the social graph Web 3.0?  —  Well, it looks like there’ll be no escaping the “social graph” term.  World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, in a blog post last evening, not only bestowed his blessing on the social graph but elevated it to the capitalized Social Graph, a sign that we have a New […]

Microsoft: XP contains random number generator bug  —  Microsoft admits recently discovered Windows 2000 flaw exists in XP too  —  Windows XP, Microsoft’s most popular operating system, sports the same encryption flaws that Israeli researchers recently disclosed in Windows 2000, Microsoft officials confirmed late Tuesday.

Source:   Computerworld
Author:   Gregg Keizer
Link:   http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;837190152

Microsoft’s social network clocking the most downtime  —  Social networks are more popular than ever, and are flourishing in the Web 2.0 era.  With their huge user numbers, it is very important for these websites to have a high availability.  For the largest social networks …

Source:   Royal Pingdom
Author:   Royal
Link:   http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=218