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Emergency Distress Beacon 1.0 (Mobile)

Emergency Distress Beacon, when activated, sends out a distress beacon with your current location to rescuers. And although you may be able to send a signal from urban locations, Google Maps may be of little help in rural settings. Emergency Distress Beacon is a simple peace-of-mind application that can be...

Tags: Mobile, Beacon, Cinn Dev, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-06-18

Will Facebook apology backfire in a lawsuit?

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Senior Editor Sam Diaz about the class action lawsuit against Facebook over their Beacon advertising program. They discuss the consequences of possible privacy violations, how Beacon changed to an "opt-in" program, and why CEO Mark Zuckerberg's admission of guilt may have been a bad...

Tags: Facebook, Beacon, lawsuit, advertising, Zuckerberg, privacy

Videos 2008-08-19

Facebook and Beacon partners slapped with class action suit

Facebook - along with Beacon partners Blockbuster, Fandango, Overstock and others - has been slapped with a class action lawsuit over the missteps that were taken when the Beacon program was launched last year. Techmeme And now, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg's own public apology - an admirable fess-up for the...

Tags: Class Action Suit, Facebook, Class Action, Beacon, Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-14

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse 3 (Windows)

Watch a realistic 3D animation of rippling ocean waves reflecting a bright sky filled with white fluffy clouds that float past the beacon of the lighthouse at night. Seagulls fill the day sky. The sky fades to night and the lighthouse beacon comes alive. The real seagull sound effects can...

Tags: Sky, Beacon, Unique 3D Screensavers, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-05-15

Overstock: Playing wait-and-see with Facebook's Beacon

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg did his mea culpa blog post today, but the real tell will be how advertisers and users react to the newfangled opt-in approach. Thoughts about Zuckerburg's thoughts abound (See Techmeme and ZDNet's coverage). But there are plenty of moving parts to sort out. The...

Tags: Facebook, Overstock.com Inc., Advertiser, Beacon, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-05

At last, Facebook's CEO says sorry for Beacon; universal opt-out now an option

Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook, has admitted that mistakes were made when the company rolled out its social ad-system, Beacon, whereby interactions users make on participating sites are automatically published onto their Facebook mini-feed. "We've made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we've...

Tags: Facebook, Beacon, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2007-12-05

Zuckerberg speaks: Lessons learned from Beacon

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally addressed the firestorm of controversy around the Beacon ad system. "I'm not proud of the way we've handled this situation and I know we can do better," he said in a note on Facebook's site. The end result is that Beacon now has a privacy...

Tags: Facebook, Zuckerberg, Beacon, Security, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-05

Hey Facebook's Zuckerberg, we're the blogosphere and we won't ease up until you kill Beacon

Robert Scoble's so right about Facebook and their suddenly low-visibility CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Paraphrasing Robert's thoughts, he views this low viz as being driven in large measure by the blogosphere calling Facebook out about this privacy-invading Beacon thing of theirs. You know, that...

Tags: Facebook, Blogosphere, Beacon, Blogging, Internet, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-12-04

I'll go ahead and say it: Facebook's Beacon MUST DIE. NOW

All you need to know about Facebook's Beacon is contained in the Wikipedia entry for the damn thing: Beacon is a part of Facebook's Ads system that sends data from external websites to Facebook, ostensibly for the purpose of allowing targeted advertisements, and allowing users to...

Tags: Facebook, Beacon, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Wiki, Internet, Online Communications, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-12-03

Facebook Beacon update: No activities published without users proactively consenting

Updated: On November 6, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg proudly launched the new services Techmeme that he expected to redefine the advertising business. “People influence people. Nothing influences people more than are recommendation from a trusted friend. A trusted referral influences people more than the best...

Tags: Facebook, Notification, Problem, Story, User, Referral, Beacon, Public Relations, Business Structures, Web Site Development, Web Technology, E-mail, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Finance, Internet, Online Communications, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-29

Facebook apologizes for spoiling Christmas, but Beacon's here to stay

A Facebook customer support representative responding to complaints posted on the Facebook "group" that MoveOn.org set-up as part of its anti-Beacon campaign, has aplogized for spoiling christmas! Paul Janzer wrote: "we're sorry if we spoiled some of your holiday gift-giving plans", after a number of users...

Tags: Facebook, Beacon, Business Structures, Finance, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2007-11-29

Is Facebook banking that you're a beacon of egomania?

Is Facebook banking that you're a beacon of egomania?can you fit...any more similes or metaphors into a column about facebook advertising? I mean they were packed in there like my sister's shoes in my suitcase when she ran out of room in both of hers on our last family vacation!...

Tags: whole-Web 2.0 thing, Facebook banking, Facebook, beacon, banking

Discussion threads 2007-11-26

Facebook launches its ad platform; Coca-Cola as friend?

Facebook on Tuesday announced its long awaited advertising system, dubbed Facebook Ads. According to the company's statement, Facebook Ads will allow "businesses to connect with users and target advertising to the exact audiences they want." Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined how the company has...

Tags: Facebook, Advertisement, Coca-Cola Co., Beacon, Ad System, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-06

New directions in car safety and navigation

New directions in car safety and navigationWhat about PLBs or EPIRBs built into cars?PLBs or Personal Locator Beacons have recently been approved for use within the United States. Why are we also not looking into integrating this technology into cars as well? This technology, in the form of...

Tags: PLB, GPS, beacon

Discussion threads 2006-12-14

Wireless USB poised to cut the cable

Wireless USB poised to cut the cableIt's about timeHurry it up, man!http://opendomain.blogspot.com/So, how does it deal with power?I am assuming that this technology now takes batteries - so instead of having free cables on our desks, we have to spend $5 to $10 /per year per device on Batteries -...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Engineering, Wi-Fi, radio, wireless USB, battery, wireless, USB, beacon, cable

Discussion threads 2006-10-17

WWSU 6.2 (Windows)

WWSU is a look up/logging utility designed for longwave beacon listeners. The user of this program can look up a particular beacon by its callsign or frequency. Once found, the beacon can be entered into a listening log. WWSU offers the ability to enter logs from 15 different listening locations...

Tags: Beacon, A&A Solar, WWSU 6.2, WWSU, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-10-12

PalmLight 1.0 (Mobile)

PalmLight turns your Palm into a flashlight and emergeny beacon. Freeware for Ver 1.0! PalmLight has two main modes, white light and red light. PalmLight Features many uses Use the white light option as a normal flashlight for seeing in the dark when a flashlight is not available....

Tags: Mobile, Light, Beacon, TrajectoryLabs, PalmLight 1.0, Strategy, Management

Software downloads 2003-03-09

Additional Resources

EPA, Climate Savers to host power management tips seminar

If you've got a little time on July 21, green IT organization Climate Savers Computing Initiative and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are teaming up to host a Webinar entitled "Briefing on IT Power Management for Utility Energy-Efficiency Program." The content will include an overview of the impact that controlling...

Tags: Power Management, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Sales Force Management, Benefits, Sales, Human Resources, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-01

One example of "smarter planet"

The smart grid for electricity has become so mainstream Congress wrote it into the stimulus law enacted earlier this year. IBM's marketing of "smarter planet" goes way beyond electricity and networked grid. I recently spoke with Drew Clark, director of strategy of IBM Venture Capital Group. And...

Tags: Sensor, Grid, IBM Corp., Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-21

Beacon Auditor 1.7 (Windows)

The Beacon Auditor is a software package designed for proactive network scanning, inventory and analysis. It was created to maximize productivity for network consultants and IT administrators in their task of network discovery and documentation. How does the Beacon Auditor work? The software is installed on any Windows XP or...

Tags: Software, Network, Microsoft Windows, Intepro, Beacon Auditor, Tools & Techniques, Networking, Management

Software downloads 2009-06-17