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Is Facebook’s Social Graph Beacon 2.0?

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People may recall Facebook’s Beacon debacle , in late 2007. The FTC needs to pay closer attention to what’s going on in social media and social networking to get ahead of the curve and at least understand, if not regulate, new technologies and the effect they have on consumer privacy rights.

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At 10,000 Followers, Rethinking the Follower Thing

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When I signed up in June, 2007, Twitter, launched publicly in July, 2006, was less than a year old. Tags: Social Media Twitter. If you do the math on the cost of a couple of books, my 10,000th subscriber was really expensive. Everyone was an early adopter. The conversations were engaging and stimulating.

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