Comments on: Love–and Being a CEO–Means Always Having to Say You're Sorry

By: Facebook's mea culpa comes at last - Top Stocks Blog: Talk about the most noteworthy stocks in the market each day – MSN Money

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:13:07 +0000

[...] the userbase doesn’t have a negative reaction, eventually the advertisers won’t give a damn.” BoomTown: “This kind of thing can turn into death by a thousand cuts for a company, if they are not careful [...]

By: Kara Swisher

Kara Swisher — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:16:54 +0000

Oh, yes, the money.

We can’t all live on Microsoft money alone!

Well, we can. But that would be wrong.

By: dave mcclure

dave mcclure — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:41:53 +0000

(nice parker brothers graphic… i appreciate you going the extra mile for those little extra touches

i tend to agree with you they could have managed this better, and probably should have been faster on the response.

and as Om points out, there might still be a technical / legal issue for them to deal with around transmitting user info appropriately.

but when all is said & done, the larger issue for facebook is still going to be monetization, not privacy.

they can always dial up or down the privacy settings on Beacon, and eventually arrive at something that satisfies the user community & their advertisers (if not always the press).

but it’s not going to be as easy to dial up the inventory of Feed stories from external sites if the Beacon settings are now truly opt-in (kind of).

whether or not any of this has an impact on monetization remains to be seen, but i gotta think they’ve got a lot more to figure out in that category.

By: More Beacon… : The Last Podcast

More Beacon… : The Last Podcast — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:21:19 +0000

[...] adjustments. Shows you the power of the user. Good thing Facebook listened because otherwise,as Kara Swisher pointed out, This kind of thing can turn into death by a thousand cuts for a company, if they are not careful [...]