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balam - 1:39 am on Dec 6, 2007 (gmt 0)


The Register: Facebook CEO capitulates (again) on Beacon [theregister.co.uk]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has issued a mea culpa to his 56 million users, saying he failed to give them the ability to control the personal information that is shared with others. He also announced a new switch that with one flip allows people to completely turn off the feature, which is dubbed Beacon.

"We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for that," Zuckerberg wrote in a blog post on Wednesday. "People need to be able to explicitly choose what they share, and they need to be able to turn Beacon off completely if they don't want to use it."

See this thread as well: Follow-up: Facebooks on Beacon "we did a bad job" [webmasterworld.com]


> Do you examine your partner-site Javascript code?

Not as closely as I should have.

> Do you examine sessions with a protocol analyzer?

Now I will!

> Do we need to start doing this?

Excellent idea!


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