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 [...]
LinkedIn’s platform loosens up
Professional networking site LinkedIn’s platform, previously a closed offering for select partners, has opened up to developers at large, according to an announcement Monday on the company blog. Well, sort of. Building an embeddable widget on LinkedIn, unlike Facebook’s, still requires a stringent application process. But LinkedIn’s own code has now been opened up so [...]
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 [...]