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Simon Heath

Run for your lives: Facebook goes all Twitter

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July 6th, 2009Category: Birmingham, Home, Online PR, Online Reputation, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Strategy
Run for your lives: Facebook goes all Twitter

So Facebook is turning into Twitter? Right listen very carefully, I shall say this only once: disable your Facebook account immediately and run for cover before they put all your profile content on display for everyone to see.

But hold on just a minute. In the words of another great drama queen, calm down dear.

In fact what Facebook are doing is changing their business model to include public content sharing, profile ‘fans’ and real-time search (these are the headline grabbers).

Is this a good thing?

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Chris Tomlinson

Phorm creates a storm

Posted by Chris TomlinsonNo Comments »
March 19th, 2008Category: Random Rants

I’m not sure what it is that we all have to hide, but nothing gets us hotter under the collar than internet privacy. Last week, the blogosphere suffered an unusually large bout of outrage when plans to implement a behavioral …

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Chris Tomlinson

Attempts to police the net are doomed to fail

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January 23rd, 2008Category: Random Rants

Last week Jacqui Smith promised ‘technical measures’ to stop the web from spreading terrorist propaganda and the UK ISP industry took in a deep breath.

Breaking in a new home secretary is always difficult for the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA). The task of explaining why, almost by its very design, the internet is effectively uncensorable comes with every new Minister.

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Chris Tomlinson

Microsoft checks in to the internet’s Hotel California

Posted by Chris TomlinsonNo Comments »
November 7th, 2007Category: Social Media Strategy

Microsoft’s recent purchase of 1.6% of Facebook for $240 million has got many people worried about the future of social networking and the sanity of Microsoft.

Let’s face it; a 1.6% share of any company will just about get you an invite to their Christmas party, but very little control over their affairs.

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Chris Tomlinson

Will behavioural targeting make ads less annoying?

Posted by Chris TomlinsonNo Comments »
July 16th, 2007Category: Social Media Strategy

The online advertising community is getting very excited about something called ‘behavioural targeting’ and the big question is, should we be worried?

In my world the word targeting’ has an unpleasant overtone.

In my experience, being targeted, in most contexts, seldom has a positive outcome for individuals subjected to it, especially if they happened to be a deer.

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