Tuesday 15 February 2011

Today's links: New Chrome extension, Facebook web dominance, e-marketing and leadership

New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
Google has launched one of its first experiments aimed at fighting back against content farms, asking the public to help identify the worst offenders.

Facebook's Web of Frenemies
Facebook Inc.'s growing ambitions are redrawing battle lines in Silicon Valley.
As the seven-year-old company ramps up its hiring and adds new features to its social network, it is disrupting the businesses of established companies like Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. and putting even more Internet firms on notice

Stop Treating Consumers Like Liabilities, Start Treating Them Like People
Consumerist Offers Tips on How to Hold on to Unhappy Customers and Win New Ones; First: Stop Being Such a Jerk

Do We Need Leaders?
Like millions of others, we have been thrilled and terrified by the unexpected and unprecedented news coming out of Egypt in recent weeks.

Consumer Privacy And Marketers: Let's Talk Terms
The marketing and privacy discussion is full of complex issues being conflated in similar ways.
Most marketers are interested in data that gives them a better understanding of their audiences overall.
“Privacy” itself may mean not collecting unneccessary data, or collecting data and sharing it only with companies that the consumer specifies.

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