Zuckerberg apologizes for Beacon -- announces a full opt-out

Re:Zuckerberg apologizes for Beacon -- announces a full opt-out by dcurtis on Friday December 07, 2007 @05:09PM (#87143)

I disagree that it is a "very small step up" from the book application. There's a pretty big problem, I think, with web applications being pretty much unable to communicate with each other or with other types of services. Facebook is attempting to solve that with the most "complete" system created so far, Beacon.

I think we'll see a lot more like it in the future. With extremely good privacy controls, no doubt.

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Re:Zuckerberg apologizes for Beacon -- announces a full opt-out by mwerty on Saturday December 08, 2007 @05:46AM (#87261)

Conceded. Cross-site communication is a problem I had not thought of.

I'm still not sure what their novelty is given how doubleclick's cookies working across different portals were being talked about during the dot-com days. I thought Beacon was implemented using the same technique plus direct http calls.

Is there some deviousness I do not know about?

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