Shooting at Bubbles

Given that it is Monday this would normally be the space reserved for the Moronic Monday show but given two major pieces of news today in the tech world Sean and I figured that they were too important to hold over until Tuesday.

I am of course talking about the PR spin that the Washington Post published today from Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg because really that is all it was folks. Just another of his we’re so sorry and we’re listening to you all which we know id Facebook-speak for – okay now for our typical one step back but hey we’ve got them sucked in a little more.

The second bit of news that is still rippling through the tech blogosphere was the news that Twitter was shutting off API access to advertising networks like Sponsored Tweets, Magpie and others. In other words – this is our sandpile and we’re going to be the one’s make money from it.

Posts referred to in the show

• From Facebook, answering privacy concerns with new settings – The Washington Post
• Zuckerberg please stop. You are making me want to gag. – The Inquisitr
• Twitter: The One-Company Economic Wrecking Ball [No Instream Ads] – SiliconANGLE
• Twitter clarifies its advertising policy. Developer or user, you should read this. – The Next Web
• Making sense of Twitter’s new advertising crackdown. - The Social Path
• Changes Coming to Sponsored Tweets - Sponsored Tweets Blog
• Twitter staking claim on ad revenue – blocks 3rd party ad platforms – The Inquisitr
• Twitter To Demand Ad Cut From 3rd Party Service Providers – The Inquisitr
• Video: Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Tells TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington To F*&k Off – The Inquisitr

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