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If you have checked facebook status you might have seen something like “Facebook has agreed to let third party advertisers use your posted pictures without your permission.” and might end with “Help your friends…cut and paste this into your status.” Is this true? Would Facebook let their advertiser’s use user’s photos?
(Thank you xkcd!!)
There are even posts that address how to prevent your photos from being used on well known sites like About.com (http://personalweb.about.com/b/2009/07/26/keep-facebook-photos-out-of-ads.htm) or CBS News (http://cbs5.com/local/facebook.photos.ads.2.1100466.html). It wouldn’t be the first time Facebook has dove face first into a privacy grey area, with it’s Beacon <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beacon_(Facebook)) that let 3rd party sites broadcast what you were doing on other websites. It would make sense that same company would use users’ photos for advertisments on facebook.
According to Facebook’s own blog in a post entitled Debunking Rumors about Advertising and Photos Facebook staffers state that these claims are false and that they have “made no such change in our advertising policies”.
“The advertisements that started these rumors were not from Facebook but placed within applications by third parties. Those ads violated our policies by misusing profile photos, and we already required the removal of those deceptive ads from third-party applications before this rumor began spreading.”
In that same post they try to set the record straight and explain how they do use users’ photos in the advertisements on Facebook. Even the way Facebooks admits to using photos in their ads gives me pause.
“How We Use Photos
We’ve run advertisements from our own advertising system for more than a year that let your friends know if you have a direct connection with a product or service, in the same way that your friends learn through your News Feed if you’re connected with another friend or an organization’s Facebook Page. For example, if one of your friends becomes a fan of a Page, you may see an ad, like the one below, with your friend’s profile photo that indicates the action that friend has taken.” Facebook
This means that if you interact with a company or brand that advertises on Facebook, you become an unwitting spokes person for the product or service. For many of you who follow this podcast this is obvious. Facebook is an information service and it’s users submit their personal information so they can find and interact with friends. In a way you pay for your interactions on Facebook with the currency of your info.
For the majority of Facebooks user base this is probably a new concept. Most see Facebook as a walled garden where they can interact with friends and selected loved ones. They often don’t feel the need to hold back with their friends. That is until it gets more complicated and something they didn’t want out becomes public.
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RJD2 - 2 More Dead
Built to Spill - Untrustable/Pt. 2
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In today’s podcast we are going to talk about some confidential Twitter memos that were leaked to the web, how the Guardian newspaper was able to leverage Twitter for better converstaions, and I’ll review and discuss Chris Anderson’s new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price.
*Twitter’s confidential memos on TechCrunch
Reblogged from soupsoup:
The documents include employment agreements, calendars of the founders, new employee interview schedules, phone logs and bills, alarm settings, a financial forecast, a pitch for a Twitter TV show, confidentiality agreements with companies such as AOL, Dell, Ericsson, and Nokia, a list of employee dietary restrictions, credit card numbers, Paypal and Gmail screen shots, and much more.
*Curating Twitter
At their Open Platform Blog the Guardian recently discussed the power and the problems of using twitter to generate and participate in converstaion. To do this they created a tool that they recently released for their Activate Summit called TwitterFall.
“Twitter is becoming a very fertile backchannel at conferences and news stories. It provides a simple mechanism for those at conferences to discuss themes, to amplify topics of interest and to engage those unable to attend. We wanted to keep the immediacy of Twitter as a backchannel but also maintain some sense of respect for the speakers”
*Chris Anderson’s ‘Free: The Future of a Radical Price’
Wired Magazine’s Editor in Cheif and author of The Long Tail Chris Anderson has just released his follow up called Free: The Future of a Radical Price. Like his first book, Free is a look at the changing nature of business on and off of the web. In is book he discusses how companies like Google or bands like Radiohead have leveraged free products and services into successful business models.
What Anderson feels makes this gratis econonmy possible is the economy of bits. Where companies like Verizon or Gillete sell their hardware at a loss while charging for service or marked up blades. Companies like Google or Facebook to give their services away because they can keep their costs low and don’t need to supply customers with any physical materials.
This idea has been implemented widely in the education sector for years. When I was in middle school in the mid-90’s my school recieved free TVs in every class. I’m not sure if this was part of Cable in the Classroom, but everyday the TVs would show Channel 1 during homeroom and lunch. The TVs were the cost of a captive audience of upper-middleclass consumers.
The most interesting part of this book is that Anderson is using the economic model he discusses in his book and is giving away the audio book and full digital copies of his book.
Free Links:
Wired: Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business By Chris Anderson
Dan Patterson’s Interview With Chris Anderson [Wired,’The Long Tail’] on ’Free’
Free Full Digital Copy of Free: The Future of a Radical Price
Chris Anderson’s Interview on Managing the Gray
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