Today’s show we have updates on Facebook’s frictionless sharing, being a marketer and gaming social media. A few stories first: Facebook again may have gone too far in its quest to make privacy obsolete, and this time some news organizations could get burned by going along with it.  —  Facebook spent years making it [...]

  Facebook releases facial recognition auto-tagging. New feature release and for the next few days we will see privacy advocates go in overdrive. I contend that Facebook or Google really do not care about privacy. They talk about it but when you read through the lines and watch their actions it becomes even more obvious. [...]

“Even if you have a successful paywall, the revenue you get will not come close to matching what you’re going to get on the advertising side,” Forbes Media chairman and former presidential candidate Steve Forbes told paidContent:UK. More here. I also mention this post from Mashable on social media. Plus the info graphics on Game of [...]

What would you rather do: Let your house go into foreclosure or allow someone to turn it into an enormous advertisement? The folks at Adzookie – but perhaps not your neighbors – are hoping you’ll pick answer No. 2. yes go annoy your neighbors. The idea behind anonymity in regards to the Internet is contentious [...]

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Today we talk about the do not track list and the future of tracking. So let’s get started… The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is preparing to hold  hearings on online privacy issues, perhaps as soon as February, according to Hill sources. More here from MediaWeek. Mozilla Corp. plans to add a do-not-track feature [...]

What would the end of the  year be with out a predictions show? Today we talk about new media predictions for 2011 or Twenty Eleven if you prefer. Here is what we cover on the show: Mobile will be huge and change purchasing behavior Local will get bigger and by the end of the year [...]

The flurry of smartphone payment offerings under development have caught the attention of Consumers Union, the non-profit publisher of Consumer Reports. Its verdict, as of now: while the mobile payment technologies may be convenient and fun, they are not necessarily safe. At the very least, says Michelle Jun, staff attorney for Consumers Union, the mobile [...]

I really would like your thoughts on this. Is privacy slowly dying. Are we at a point where we cannot turn this around. Do we have a digital persona from day one. Are we at a point where we can be tracked in everything we do? What about this story Pre-Crime Technology To Be Used [...]

What if you had top executives whose organizations are engaging in social media–could you gleam some insight or learn about the future of new media? Top executives were probed on this topic, along with many others, as part of the research for a just-released 2010 Grocery Manufacturers Association/PricewaterhouseCoopers financial performance report — and the insights [...]