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Facebook, Facebook, Facebook, we hardley knew ye !

A relevant quote from the ether, found though Flickr:
“I’m done with Facebook. I’ve never really seen the value in it (except Scrabulous, perhaps) and I am getting increasingly uneasy about handing over so much information to them. The recent Beacon debacle was revelatory.
So I’m saying goodbye. I do sincerely hope that all 201 of my [...]

Posted 05 December 2007 † admin § Black Hat SEO § Facebook § Social Networking ‡ Comments (0) °

Google PR ‘comment spam on blogs’ attack thwarted !

Attack Of The Fake Search Results
A massive attempt to defraud search users was thwarted yesterday, according to the BBC. Hackers created thousands of booby-trapped Web sites that tricked Google, MSN and Yahoo search crawlers into ranking them very high. The hackers used comment spam on blogs to achieve the high results. The Web sites would [...]

Posted 30 November 2007 † admin § Google § PR § Phishing ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , ,

FaceBook Fumbles !

Facebook Revamps Beacon Program Amid Protests
“CONFRONTED WITH GROWING RESISTANCE TO its new ad program, Facebook late Thursday said it would no longer publish information about users’ online purchases without their explicit consent.
The move comes nine days after activist organization MoveOn.org launched a protest group on Facebook demanding that the company revamp its three-week-old Beacon program, [...]

Posted 30 November 2007 † admin § Facebook ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,