Privacy Groups Ready FTC Complaint Against Facebook  —  ADDING TO THE BACKLASH AGAINST Facebook’s new advertising programs, privacy groups are preparing to file complaints with the Federal Trade Commission against the social networking site.  —  The digital civil rights group Electronic …

Source:   MediaPost Publications
Author:   Wendy Davis
Link:   http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm…

MICROSOFT FLEXES WEB WITH NEW AD CAMPAIGN  —  Microsoft wants to show consumers where Windows meets the Web.  —  The software giant is gearing up for a major ad push to highlight how its suite of free online software connects to its Windows operating system over the Internet.

Source:   New York Post
Author:   Holly M. […]

TiVo Announces Results for Third Quarter Ended October 31, 2007  — Announced relationship with NCTA and cable industry to enable cable operator installation and other support for TiVo standalone boxes  — Entered into strategic partnership with NBC to provide their advertisers …

Source:   PR Newswire
Link:   http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/071128/aqw079.html

Social Site Rankings (October, 2007)  —  Last month, I asked comScore to run some numbers on traffic to social sites (comScore calls them social networking sites, but they are not all social networks).  This month, I asked them to do the same run again for October, 2007.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Erick Schonfeld
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/28/social-site…

Office 2008 for Mac to feature iPhone sync capability  —  Microsoft is planning to provide as part of Office 2008 for Mac — the final version of which is due January 2008 — technology that will allow users to export PowerPoint 2008 presentations onto their iPods and/or iPhones.

Source:   All about Microsoft
Author:   Mary Jo […]

Customer Satisfaction on Cyber Monday Up Slightly From Last Year, According to Study by ForeSee Results  —  Cyber Monday shoppers were more satisfied with their online experience in 2007 than they were in 2006, according to a new study from leading online customer satisfaction measurement firm ForeSee Results.

Source:   Foresee Results
Link:   http://www.foreseeresults.com/Press_CyberMonday_Nov07…

Google Gadgets go cross-platform  —  Google is adding support for Google Gadgets in its Google Desktop for the Mac software.  Google Gadgets, as you probably know, are mini applications with dynamic content that offer quick access for things like newsfeeds and to-do lists.

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Elinor Mills
Link:   http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9824575-7.html

What the Google Intranet Looks Like  —  What do around 16,000 Google employees stare at in the morning when they’ve arrived at the office?  They might be looking at Moma, the name for the Google intranet.  The meaning of the name of “Moma” is a mystery even to some of the employees working on it […]

LinkedIn CEO: We’d only sell for “a helluva lot”  —  I sat down Tuesday afternoon in Mountain View, Calif., with Dan Nye, the newish CEO (he joined earlier this year) of LinkedIn.  That’s the company that is like Facebook for grownups, a businessperson’s social networking site.

Source:   CNN
Link:   http://gowest.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2007/11/28…

Laptops for kids group sued over keyboard design  —  A Nigerian entrepreneur based in Natick says the One Laptop Per Child Foundation of Cambridge stole his company’s design for a multilingual keyboard.  —  Ade Oyegbola, founder and chief executive of Lagos Analysis Corp., or Lancor …

Source:   Boston Globe
Author:   Hiawatha Bray
Link:   http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles…