Analysis The Half Truths of Mark Zuckerberg Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg just led a phone call for the press announcing a number of substantial changes to Facebook's fluid and controversial privacy policy. Today's changes were good for users concerned about privacy, but Zuckerberg's tone on the call was odd. He said a number of things that seemed of questionable...truth. Those were… Social Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Trends Facebook Privacy Briefing: Zuckerberg Shares that Privacy Does Matter A single word, context, was the message in Facebook's briefing today. We liveblogged the event and are continuing to cover the aftermath. Worth noting in Mark Zuckerberg's presentation and Q&A was that it was easy to see how hard it is to gain a common context for how we view sharing. Meeting users' needs for privacy is a problem of context… Mike Kirkwood View comments
Facebook Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Talks About New Privacy Controls (Live Blog) Facebook is holding a press conference this morning where the company's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will discuss Facebook's progress in bringing enhanced and simpler privacy controls to the popular social networking service. Since Facebook's last round of updates, the company has come under growing pressure to safeguard its users' privacy and… Social Frederic Lardinois View comments
Analysis Facebook Rolls Back Some Key Privacy Changes Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg went in front of the world's media this morning and grudgingly announced roll backs on some of the biggest and most controversial changes to the site's privacy settings made since December. The default setting for most content published on Facebook has not changed. It remains public - unlike the private nature… Social Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Augmented Reality AR Developers Ogmento Raise $3.5M for Augmented Gaming Apps Budding augmented reality (AR) gaming developers Ogmento announced today that it has raised a healthy $3.5 million from Chart Venture Partners, CNF Investments and other private investors. The funding announcement is a big step forward for AR startups as no previous gaming company had received funding to build games using the emerging technology… Play Chris Cameron View comments