Facebook app privacy: It’s complicated
Earlier this week I wrote a post about how I didn’t like that I couldn’t alter the Facebook Connect privacy settings for updates from Foursquare, an iPhone app that shares my location through a GPS-enabled city directory. It didn’t make sense to me that Facebook Connect information was automatically visible to anyone who had access [...]
Yahoo brings Facebook Connect into its sites
Yahoo is bringing Facebook into just about all of its Web sites, allowing users to update their Facebook status and share news items with friends right from the Yahoo page. The company announced the integration of Facebook Connect across several key Yahoo Web sites including Mail, News, Sports, and Finance. The idea is to drive [...]
Offerpal revises terms amid continued scandal
Offerpal Media, one of the companies at the center of a bitter dispute over misleading advertisements on social networks, on Thursday launched a revised policy designed to “forbid any offers that are misleading, deceptive or otherwise objectionable.” Companies like Offerpal are enlisted by many of the big gaming companies built on social networks like Facebook; [...]
Twitter, LinkedIn team up for self-promotion free-for-all
Chalk one up for the cringe-worthy marketing term “personal branding”: there is a new partnership between Twitter, hub for informing the world exactly what you’re doing and thinking at all moments of the day, and LinkedIn, the business-networking tool on steroids. In an announcement Monday, the two companies explained that LinkedIn status messages can sync [...]