MoveOn Launches Campaign Against Facebook

Facebook is busy ruining Christmas, and that's the least of the worries. Violations of user privacy are higher on the worry list, and MoveOn.org has launched an online petition and ad campaign against Facebook's brand new "Beacon" program.

Facebook To Tweak Status Updates

Compared to anything you’ll see coming from the BBC or CNN, this is admittedly a pretty minor piece of news.  Yet it’s nonetheless nice to hear that Facebook plans to drop the word “is” from its users’ status updates.

We Can’t Judge Relevance

Yesterday, I argued that Microsoft’s search engine update, which included highly touted relevance improvements, did not and will not ultimately improve their fortunes. To state things a bit more strongly: I think that relevance cannot be a selling point for a search engine, and not just because Live’s update was just catching them up to the level of many other popular search engines. In fact,…