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With a new Google dashboard, unveiled yesterday in Spain, we'll be able to monitor the information Google has about us in its various applications, from gmail to YouTube. This is the kind of disclosure privacy advocates have been calling for....

I've been carrying out a small experiment in one of the areas of greatest potential abuse of social media: Twitter marketing. If you Google "Twitter buy followers," you'll see lots of choices. One outfit called Quick Online Tips offers 100,000...

For the next couple of weeks, I'm going to be writing about consulting, of the Enterprise 2.0 variety. For this I need all the help I can get: suggestions, tips, insights, case studies. Here's the idea: Enterprise 2.0 is a...

SocialText CEO Eugene Lee talks discusses advantages of Twitter over Facebook model for Enterprise 2.0

Several hundred BusinessWeek employees filed into an auditorium at the McGraw Hill headquarters yesterday morning to learn about their future. On the stage were top editors and execs from Bloomberg LP, which had just scooped up our 80 weekly (and...

A new Harris Interactive survey shows that even in this spammy world we inhabit, the overwhelming majority of people still open their e-mail boxes for the right offers. According to Harris, 96% of adults have provided their email address to...

Yes, the Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on undisclosed cash or freebies given to bloggers. Funny, we have rules covering such behavior at BW. (We're not allowed to accept the stuff.) But it's the magazine, and not the government,...

Every company needs a social media strategy. I've written this, at length, myself. For many execs, this is foreign and frightening turf. So many turn to consultants. Now, as Adam Kmiec argues, the market is filling up with lots of...

Facebook is the new king of social networking. But the site is stuck with an old business model that prevents it from cashing in on the increasing affluence of its users and the monopoly it has over their attention. Simply...

Now that BusinessWeek is for sale and my future here is uncertain, I'm cross-posting more than ever on my book blog. The way I see it, BW is the ship my colleagues and I are on. Our blogs and social...

I was in the San Rafael (Calif) offices of Fair Isaac nearly three years ago, interviewing the financial quants there for the Numerati. Suddenly, there was a commotion. News had just arrived that Netflix would be sharing loads of anonymous...

I read on TechCrunch that Twitter's latest round of funding values the company at $1 billion. This leads me to wonder about the widening valuation gap between new and old media. I am not one to denigrate Twitter. I use...

Mitch Joel, author of Six Pixels of Separation, says to start out by focusing 100% of ad budgets on search. Now that BusinessWeek is on the block, just about everyone around here is sniffing around for other opportunities. When one...

On Thursday, the world's most popular social networking site rolled out some new features, the kind that inevitably lead bloggers to indulge in a new kind of parlor game: comparing Facebook to Twitter. As Twitter users have been doing for...

The Internet has altered the social dynamics of this recession. Many workers who are laid off now turn to their online networks of friends for support and new job opportunities, instead of shutting off from the world. Membership at online...