Comments on: Will Privacy Concerns Take the Boom out of Online Ads?

By: OpenSocial Advertising for All! - GigaOM

OpenSocial Advertising for All! - GigaOM — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:45:28 +0000

[...] universal online social graph at the same time they open themselves up to constant and intrusive socially-based advertising. Share/Send Sphere [...]

By: Let’s Be Friends: AdFriends « GigaOM

Let’s Be Friends: AdFriends « GigaOM — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:30:39 +0000

[...] comments The dueling advertising announcements out of Facebook and MySpace have once again put privacy concerns into the spotlight. Technology commentator Esther Dyson suggests that instead of legislative relief [...]

By: Scholars and Rogues » Will OpenSocial help Google reorganize into the first Galactic Empire?

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:09:47 +0000

[...] yet micro-targeted marketplace, where any Web site you sign up for could hit you with ads that get more and more detailed and persuasive as you share more and more [...]

By: Adam Martin {Fat Man}

Adam Martin {Fat Man} — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:33:51 +0000

Microsoft + Facebook = Facesoft, social advertising, a term so ugly, matching an engaging interactive activity with brand pushing is like the mailman handing you your mail in the morning already opened and giving you a quick summary of it all!

This is the advent of a very big bubble, when we have to ask, 'when did we come to expect everything for free?', where is the option to pay a nominal sum, say $1 per week for Facebook and be spared the mail reading and banner ads for Russian dating agencies? How much advertising can the net sustain? Google's effective simplicity has driven a gold rush for a slew of ever more technologically advanced systems of profiling and ad serving, but no one stopped to ask whether the consumer wants this and we are left with a glut of tech snooping and mediocrity.

Let pay Lord Facesoft, let me pay!

By: share.websitemagazine.com

share.websitemagazine.com — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:38:09 +0000

Will Privacy Concerns Take the Boom out of Online Ads?

The world eagerly awaits the Facebook’s social advertising platform, likely to be announced on November 6th at the Ad:Tech conference in New York.

By: OpenSocial vs facebook « naveen’s weblog

OpenSocial vs facebook « naveen’s weblog — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:28:29 +0000

[...] the competitive advantage of this connection information, facebook’s impending SocialAds-network is going to be just another ad network that tracks your interests. This new network was supposed to [...]

By: Don Jones

Don Jones — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:13:09 +0000

I don’t think the mass market will get up in arms over privacy issues online. Why not? It doesn’t really bother them.

But start getting phone calls at home at 7:00 pm from marketers you came across online…then you’ll see an outcry.

By: Joseph Pally

Joseph Pally — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:55:13 +0000

Ads presented all over the place, even when behavior oriented does not get too far. Google is successful because the ads are delivered when one is LOOKING/SEARCHING for something.

Google holds the best card in three of these: Google Search/Google Maps/Google Email. Atleast for now.

Social network is not going to make that much of a difference - proven by Myspace having more pageviews, but far less revenue than Google almost consistently.

By: murrendories

murrendories — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:00:44 +0000

What is with this thing about privacy invasion and all that with the Internet?

I’ve just recently set myself up with a satellite connection due to my remote location and I am a new Interneter. I am presently learning to keep company with all sorts of fresh information from fresh people and, yet, all I keep reading about is this sneaky mucking about that I am supposedly exposing myself to when I web about.

I found this site linked up with my own new site (we’re apparently on the same service). This web spot is singled out as a “hot” spot, so to speak, as it says on the little box to the right of my screen.

Then, I web over here and, again, I read about this spying thing.

For what’s it worth, I like this webbing about, as it slices away the bitter parts of the loney, foggy quiet. So, I intend to carry on nonetheless. Here’s a web spot connection link to what I think these spies can learn about me and my webbing about. cheers to you all from Blind Channel, B.C., Tadhg (it’s pronounced ‘tagged’)

(link)

By: Gabby

Gabby — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:39:55 +0000

“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
(”Who will watch the watchmen?”)
-Latin phrase from the Roman poet Juvenal

By: adriana

adriana — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:31:48 +0000

I think the privacy issue is going to be so big and complicated that it might not even be worth the trouble. If advertisers target us based on our Facebook profiles does this mean that no matter what sites we travel to we are going to see the same advertisements over and over again? On paper it seems like a good idea but in reality I don’t think it’s going to be that groundbreaking or even very effective, especially when you take into consideration how people are going to feel when their private profiles are going to be used by people you don’t even know, to bombard you with ads that you probably don’t even want to see… we’ll see I guess.

By: cyclepromo

cyclepromo — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:24:42 +0000

What the biggest issue might be is that people do not realize that these companies are digging deep into your search and storing that info. Sure its all for the better serving of ads and SERPS but the average users does not know that data is being collected in such a manner. Thats why its a beltway topic becuase the average person does not even realize its happening.

By: Joe Jordan

Joe Jordan — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:21:36 +0000

Google, Facebook, and a host of other bright minds understand that “The most effective way to cope with change is to help create it” (L.W. Lynett).

Let’s hope that the outcome of this debate creates a solution that both advertisers and consumers will appreciate.