How To Solve Facebook’s Beacon Problem  —  The controversy over Facebook’s Beacon program, which publicizes your purchases and activities on other sites to your Facebook friends, isn’t going away.  It doesn’t matter how many Facebook users are actually upset by Beacon: This is an easy …

Source:   Silicon Alley Insider
Author:   Peter Kafka
Link:   http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/11/how-to-solve-fa…

Why Microsoft’s Zune is Still Failing  —  Daniel Eran Dilger  —  Last winter, I detailed why Microsoft’s iPod Killer would fail miserably.  This year, Microsoft will fail again, but for a new set of reasons.  It is not obvious that the company has figured this out itself.

Source:   Roughly Drafted
Author:   Danieleran
Link:   http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/11/22/why…

The 1% Problem  —  Sabeer Bhatia, of HotMail fame, launched Live Documents, on online office suite today.  In the news coverage, this snippet caught my attention: … Here is Guy Kawasaki’s The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs and number 11 (sic) on that list is:

Source:   Zoho Blogs
Author:   Sridhar
Link:   http://blogs.zoho.com/general/the-1-problem/

Yahoo to launch MyM “social messaging” site [Scoop]  —  Yahoo has launched, in an invitation-only trial, MyM, a “social messaging” service.  How many social networks does one company need?  Nowhere are Yahoo’s scattershot efforts more evident than in this field.

Source:   Valleywag
Author:   Owen Thomas
Link:   http://valleywag.com/tech/scoop/yahoo-to-launch-mym…

Live Documents enters the Office suite ring  —  Sabeer Bhatia was the co-founder of Hotmail, the Web email service Microsoft acquired for $400 million in 1998.  Now, Bhatia wants to bite the hand that fed him.  He formed a new company, InstaColl, and is joining Zoho, ThinkFree, Google …

Source:   Between the Lines
Author:   Dan […]

Poor Anti-Pirates: E-mail About Leaked IFPI Email Gets Leaked  —  Last month a leaked email from The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) - the anti-piracy organization that represents the recording industry worldwide - revealed that they had plans …

Source:   TorrentFreak
Author:   Ernesto
Link:   http://torrentfreak.com/email-about-leaked-ifpi-email…

Shady Secrets of Going Viral on YouTube  —  Remember when we wrote jokingly about how to “Master Viral Video Advertising in 3 Easy Steps,” concluding that there wasn’t any such simple formula?  —  Well, a Stanford graduate student named Dan Ackerman Greenberg has a different take, but it’s not pretty.

Source:   NewTeeVee
Author:   Liz Gannes
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Microsoft’s Hotmail founder goes for the (wrong) Office jugular with Live Documents  —  Sabeer Bhatia, one of the co-founders of Hotmail (bought by Microsoft for $400 million ten years ago), is on a mission to lobotomize Microsoft’s $20 billion Office business.  He has an uphill climb.

Source:   The Open Road
Author:   Matt Asay
Link:   http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9822554-16.html

Is Facebook Really Censoring Search When It Suits Them?  —  Earlier this month I wrote a blog post showing that a search for presidential candidate “Ron Paul” in Facebook Groups yields zero results.  Facebook blamed the problem on a bug (unofficially, via comments by employees to that post), which was later corrected.

Source:   TechCrunch
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