Is the Facebook Beacon Saga Really Over, or Don’t We Care About Privacy Anymore?

In November there was a brouhaha about Facebook’s Beacon innovation, which for a lot of people represented an unacceptable intrusion on privacy. GigaOm saw it as “a privacy disaster waiting to happen”. It looks to me as if we are concluding the year with, for practical purposes, Facebook off the hook, but the jury still…

Facebook as Ready-Made Social Media Marketing Platform

I have to admit that until sometime early last week I was a Facebook skeptic, at least as far as being willing to recommend incorporating Facebook into a business strategy. But I have great respect for the people behind the Web Community Forum who had organized a Facebook-focused event in Seattle to take place over…