LLRX.com – ShoppingBots and Online Shopping Resources 2011 Marcus P. Zillman’s guide arrives in time for holiday shopping, and comprises a comprehensive listing of shoppingbot and online shopping resources and sites on the Internet. Comparison shopping for books, electronics, gadgets, clothing, green products, hotels? Looking for coupons, discounts, vouchers or last minute deals? Do you… Continue Reading
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Facebook's plan – posed to be the web's virtual driver's licence
FT.com: Facebooks grand plan for the future: “This is a somewhat different Mark Zuckerberg to the one the public knew just a year ago. In recent months he has transformed from an awkward wunderkind with a preternatural ability to anticipate where the web is going, into an amicable executive unafraid of laying out his grand… Continue Reading
FTC Staff Issues Privacy Report Offers Framework for Consumers, Businesses, and Policymakers
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission, the nations chief privacy policy and enforcement agency for 40 years, issued a preliminary staff report today that proposes a framework to balance the privacy interests of consumers with innovation that relies on consumer information to develop beneficial new products and services. The proposed report also suggests implementation of… Continue Reading
EU Commission probes allegations of antitrust violations by Google
News release: “The European Commission has decided to open an antitrust investigation into allegations that Google Inc. has abused a dominant position in online search, in violation of European Union rules (Article 102 TFEU). The opening of formal proceedings follows complaints by search service providers about unfavourable treatment of their services in Google’s unpaid and… Continue Reading
Apple Leverages Amazing Success Amidst Economic Troubles
MercuryNews.com: “As 2010 draws to a close, much of the tech world is struggling to regain its footing after a difficult recession. Then there’s Apple. Never before has this venerable company, which at age 34 is a grizzled veteran by Silicon Valley standards, stood so firmly atop the high-tech industry. Earlier this year, Apple’s market… Continue Reading
White Paper – Policing Content in the Quasi-Public Sphere
Policing Content in the Quasi-Public Sphere, Jillian C. York, The OpenNet Initiative (ONI), November 2010 “Online conversations today exist primarily in the realm of social media and blogging platforms, most of which are owned by private companies. Such privately owned platforms now occupy a significant role in the public sphere, as places in which ideas… Continue Reading
Google – Promoting Free Trade for the Internet Economy
Google: “..were releasing a white paper, Enabling Trade in the Era of Information Technologies: Breaking Down Barriers to the Free Flow of Information, that explores the ways that governments impose limits on the free flow of information online. Its pretty wonky stuff, but the premise is simple: In addition to infringing human rights, governments that… Continue Reading
Study: Real Branding Implications of Digital Media
Real Branding Implications of Digital Media an SEM, SEO, & Online Display Advertising Study, iProspect | November 2010 “The key finding of this study is that online digital media assets have considerable branding influence, and that specific combinations can significantly impact a brand’s success. In fact, Internet users exposed to mere impressions of organic… Continue Reading
Ditigal Version of UK Times Gains 105,000 Readers
NYT: “The News Corporation said on Tuesday that it had gained 105,000 paying customers for the digital versions of The Times and The Sunday Times of London since it started charging for access to their Web sites this summer. The company said about half of those additions were regular, active subscribers to the newspapers Web… Continue Reading
WSJ: Facebook in Privacy Breach Top-Ranked Applications Transmit Personal IDs
WSJ: “Many of the most popular applications, or “apps,” on the social-networking site Facebook Inc. have been transmitting identifying informationin effect, providing access to people’s names and, in some cases, their friends’ namesto dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found. The issue affects tens of millions of Facebook… Continue Reading
Reps. Markey, Barton Release Responses From Websites on Tracking of Consumer Behavior
Follow up to posting, WSJ Tracks how marketers are spying on Internet users, this news release: “Representatives Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Texas), Co-Chairman of the House Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, released responses to the letters they had sent to companies identified in a Wall Street Journal investigation as reportedly installing intrusive consumer-tracking technologies… Continue Reading
WSJ Tracks how marketers are spying on Internet users
What They Know – interactive graphic: “Marketers are spying on Internet users — observing and remembering people’s clicks, and building and selling detailed dossiers of their activities and interests. The Wall Street Journal’s What They Know series documents the new, cutting-edge uses of this Internet-tracking technology. The Journal analyzed the tracking files installed on people’s… Continue Reading
