Large research house punctures Location Based Services hype shocker - AdAge: Marketers, hold off on Foursquare -- for now.

I was quite intrigued by this piece from the McKinsey Quarterly, as two people whose views I respect were quite negative about it.

I had to write the article for the headline alone, but its true: The founder of Digital Playground, one of the porn heavyweights in the...

Apple is the latest to get into the location data mining gold rush - LA Times: Apple Inc. is now collecting the "precise," "real-time geographic location"...

System Dynamic of Facebook's continual ratchet back of user privacy The Harvard Business Review makes a point we made several days ago with respect to...

Economics news from two companies we cover...Twitter and Google: Twitter first - they are signalling that they too have to exit the Freeconomic world and...

Following the Facebook (un)privacy furore that Facebook initiated with its F8 revelations, they have now got to that stage where the Apology and the Promise...

The Roger Mellie Social Media privacy policy decision tree - Facebook late May 2010 edition News today that Facebook has owned up to mistakes and...

From Venturebeat - Dave McClure says "Open is for Losers": I do believe some open standards foundations generate network effects & benefits for all… HOWEVER,...

The impact of growth decline on social network traffic Today I was in Berlin for the first time since the September 2008 O'Reilly Web 2.0...

Facebook risks leaving the (very large) segment of the market looking for a privacy respecting social network (like we had in, oh, 2006) wide open...

We wondered what was going on when photogenic Ning CEO Gina Bianchini moved off the hot seat, now we know.

Show Me The Money! View more presentations from Broadsight. Kevin Anderson on the fluffy thinking by media companies that think the iPad is their Saviour...

Internet Traffic Growth by Handset Type - watch the non phone line (bottom line) Admob reports on where the growth in mobile traffic is coming...

I've been following the "YouTube Roolz" blogfest with extreme boredom, its clearly pre-emptive posturing before the Viacom court case - but this response shot from...