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Google Settles with FTC over Deceptive Privacy Practices Related to Google Buzz Social Network

Bill Hartzer

Google today has officially agreed to settle charges by the United States Federal Trade Commission that Google used “deceptive tactics&# and “violated its own privacy promises to consumers&# when Google launched their social network called Google Buzz , in 2010. For those Gmail users who clicked on “Sweet!,”

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Can Advertisers Break The Facebook Chain Of Hate?

Forbes Social Media

Following campaigns in the United Kingdom, several US civil rights associations are proposing a total boycott of Facebook advertising in July under the hashtag #StopHateForProfit in response to the company’s refusal to remove hate speech from the social network.

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Opting-Out Of Facebook Sponsored Stories May Be On The Way

SocMed Sean

District Court of Northern District of California and the judge is currently reviewing the proposed settlement. Reuters is reporting that the proposed settlement offers $10 Million in damages and an agreement to provide an opt-out option for the program. The case, Angel Fraley et al., 11-cv-1726 , was argued in U.S.

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Time To Evolve How We Target Social Media?

Dave Fleet

As social networks become more and more prevalent, we’re at the point now that almost every client brief appears to point, on its surface, to one of a few key networks. Using just a demographic rationale, you could propose similar social media campaigns for all of them.

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Smoking Jay fumbles proposal, Oreo and comics

Jeff Esposito

The social network is now offering the Like button next to articles that your friends’ posts from specific URLS for their fan page. Jay Cutler texts proposal, mails ring – oh man. If your wife ever calls you unromantic, show her how awesome Jay Cutler is at proposing.

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Opting-Out Of Facebook Sponsored Stories May Be On The Way

SocMed Sean

Reuters is reporting that a recent proposed settlement offers $10 Million in damages and an agreement to provide an opt-out option for the program. It’s a pretty hefty shot to the social networking Goliath that is estimating that it could lose $103 Million when the changes are implemented. The case, Angel Fraley et al.,

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Why audience Insights can save your agency both time and money

Audiense

On top of that, if you add working simultaneously on several campaigns, answering emails and calls from different clients and generating proposals to gain new clients … How much time do you really have left to manually analyze excel sheets full of yet more data? We should stop thinking of social networks as only a channel.