facebooks november 2007 launch of beacon a new advertising system meant to allow facebook users to share information onsite about what theyre doing across a number of different properties elsewhere on the web has already been named to the list of biggest tech flubs of 2007 but the pain facebook has suffered didnt end with the immediate fallout of users and the general media smear that ensued. rece...
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today ca published the whitepaper ca and microsoft support for usercentric identity and the identity metasystem in which they describe their shared vision with microsoft to build the identity metasystem. in particular the whitepaper describes cas plans to enable siteminder customers to authenticate to resources protected by siteminder using information cards and to enable claims to be delivered t...
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alright something needs to be said here. what the hell is up with sears lately a company that has for the most part stayed out of the news has suddenly found itself in a lot of hot water. awful marketing released a story today indicating that sears has shut down the part of manage my home.com that allowed anyone to gain information about the purchase history of virtually any person who had shoppe...
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somewhat of a conclusion regarding the beacon controversy but not regarding the bigger picture. its explicit optin and data is only stored by facebook if you do so. that being said i think some of the issues of reputation that we talked about in class friday are still significant. facebook has startled users on at least two or three occasions now opening up the service the news feed beacon and the...
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