The price of “free” though is escalating, the social networks have moved on from just using our data for displaying advertisements to processing our private information and distributing it in ways we may have never expected.
Professional networking site LinkedIn caused an uproar last week when their social advertising feature started adding what appeared to be users’ personal endorsements to adverts for products, businesses and websites based on behaviour monitored by the site’s tracking software.
August 6th, 2011
$1m mystery donor to PAC for Mitt Romney ID’s himself
Edward Conard, is a former executive with Bain Capital, which was cofounded by Romney, and said last night that he did not intend to circumvent election laws when he created a company, W Spann LLC, which paid the contribution without Conard’s name attached.
by publcindividual | Posted in Recognition Economy | Comments Off | Tags: Edward Conard, Mitt Romney
July 31st, 2011
White House ‘rickrolls’ Twitter follower who complained about boring briefing
New York, July 31 (ANI): The White House is said to have “rickrolled” one of its Twitter followers who complained about a correspondence briefing being too boring.
“@wiggsd Sorry to hear that. Fiscal policy is important, but can be dry sometimes. Here’s something more fun: tinyurl.com/y8ufsnp #WHChat,” the New York Daily News quoted the White House tweet as saying.
July 24th, 2011
Does Google+ hate women? #nymwars « Bug Girl’s Blog
That page goes on to list, in detail, the various ways that these groups can be harmed. We know that women experience 25 TIMES the amount of harassment online that men do. We know that 50% of LGBT teens are bullied online, and many of them consider–or commit–suicide. We know that women are stalked and killed by ex-lovers. We know that LGBT folk are the victims of hate crimes.
Basically, we know that some people are assholes online, and like to target others and make their lives hell. They will do this using their real names; they do this with fake identities. It’s about BEHAVIOR, not about names. If your website is full of assholes, it’s your fault for not holding people–whatever name they go by–accountable for their behavior. Online behavior doesn’t have to be polite or full of everyone agreeing with each other. Conversations just need to not be bigoted, hateful, or destructive.
http://membracid.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/why-google-hates-women/
by publcindividual | Posted in Recognition Economy | Comments Off | Tags: Google plus, nymwars, public identity, recognition, reputation management