Comments on: What Could Facebook's Beacon Have Been (and Still Be)? http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071218/what-could-facebooks-beacon-have-been-and-still-be/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:43:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dave Liu dot com / musings from the edge » Articles of the Day http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071218/what-could-facebooks-beacon-have-been-and-still-be/#comment-2146 Dave Liu dot com / musings from the edge » Articles of the Day Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:36:15 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071218/what-could-facebooks-beacon-have-been-and-still-be/#comment-2146 [...] Facebook Beacon: What Should Have Been - An unnamed source discusses the shame that was (is?) Facebook’s Beacon and posits an interesting theory on the right way to roll out a peer-to-peer recommendation system. For starters, piling such a system on its users without first making an attempt to warm them up to the idea was foolish. If Facebook had offered a non-commercial version of the program, which tracks your purchases and then broadcasts that information to your friends via your profile news feed, focusing on what users published themselves–like video clips, for example–Beacon might not have been so bad.                     [...] [...] Facebook Beacon: What Should Have Been – An unnamed source discusses the shame that was (is?) Facebook’s Beacon and posits an interesting theory on the right way to roll out a peer-to-peer recommendation system. For starters, piling such a system on its users without first making an attempt to warm them up to the idea was foolish. If Facebook had offered a non-commercial version of the program, which tracks your purchases and then broadcasts that information to your friends via your profile news feed, focusing on what users published themselves–like video clips, for example–Beacon might not have been so bad.                     [...]

]]> By: Kara Swisher http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071218/what-could-facebooks-beacon-have-been-and-still-be/#comment-2115 Kara Swisher Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:26:17 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071218/what-could-facebooks-beacon-have-been-and-still-be/#comment-2115 L: Good point. Europe and all of international is a key area of growth for Facebook. L:

Good point. Europe and all of international is a key area of growth for Facebook.

]]> By: Kara Swisher http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071218/what-could-facebooks-beacon-have-been-and-still-be/#comment-2114 Kara Swisher Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:25:33 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071218/what-could-facebooks-beacon-have-been-and-still-be/#comment-2114 S: $100 BILLION! We remain wary. S:

$100 BILLION!

We remain wary.

]]> By: LindaMargaret Broughton http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071218/what-could-facebooks-beacon-have-been-and-still-be/#comment-2095 LindaMargaret Broughton Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:16:29 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071218/what-could-facebooks-beacon-have-been-and-still-be/#comment-2095 It will be interesting to see how the EU deals with Facebook. Yahoo! installed a filter for its French audiences in 2001, US companies have signed up for the Safe Harbour Agreement in 2000, and now Facebook may need to consider parallel rules in its use of private data for its European netizens or face legal complaints in the European Court of Justice. More here: http://www.attentio.com/insights/2007/12/07/the-facebook-fiasco-what-went-wrong It will be interesting to see how the EU deals with Facebook. Yahoo! installed a filter for its French audiences in 2001, US companies have signed up for the Safe Harbour Agreement in 2000, and now Facebook may need to consider parallel rules in its use of private data for its European netizens or face legal complaints in the European Court of Justice. More here: http://www.attentio.com/insigh.....went-wrong

]]> By: Shawn Drewry http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071218/what-could-facebooks-beacon-have-been-and-still-be/#comment-2088 Shawn Drewry Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:45:13 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071218/what-could-facebooks-beacon-have-been-and-still-be/#comment-2088 FaceBook I believe is going to continue to skyrocket, because they are outgunning MySpace, in terms of rapidly developing these easy to use social networking applications. Also, Facebook I predict will grow into a 100 billion dollar company by 2010! http://www.Drewryonline.net http://www.Social-Networking.Drewryonline.net FaceBook I believe is going to continue to skyrocket, because they are outgunning MySpace, in terms of rapidly developing these easy to use social networking applications. Also, Facebook I predict will grow into a 100 billion dollar company by 2010!

http://www.Drewryonline.net

http://www.Social-Networking.Drewryonline.net

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