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I couldn’t decide what to post about today, so here are 3 things I thought were worth sharing.
MoveOn.org Fuels Backlash Against Facebook’s Beacon
Beacon, the most controversial element of Facebook’s newly released Social Ad Program that automatically shares information about books, movies, or gifts you buy online with everyone you know on Facebook, is drawing privacy complaints. On Tuesday, social activist site MoveOn.org started it own Facebook group called “Petition: Facebook, stop invading my privacy!”. The group has already grown to over 10,000 members. MoveOn is also asking people to sign a petition demanding that Facebook protect people’s online privacy.
Quarterlife Gets “Upstreamed”
NBC has acquired the rights to air the web series Quarterlife. After an hours worth of programming has been first released on MySpace TV, it will be reformatted into an hour long episode. As far as I know, this is the first time a made for the internet series will be aired on network TV. It is worth noting, that even though MySpace and FOX are owned by the same company, the rights to Quarterlife are still owned by the shows creators Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, and this is why they were able to sell to NBC instead of FOX.
You can watch episodes 1-5 here.
Nominee For Worst Commercial Ever
My Nominee for the worst commercial ever is episode #14 of the MySpace series “Roomates”. Knowing Ford was sponsoring “Roomates” without pre-roll or post roll advertising, we all knew there was going to be a certain amount of product placement, but an episode like this shows that the creators of “Roommates” must think its audience are as mindless as the characters in the series.
Roommates Ep14: The Test Drive
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