Week That Was – 2007-09-07

Facebook announced they are opening up to a “public listing search” which will allow your profile to be found through any search engine, control of this will still be in the hands of the user which should settle any privacy concerns. An email from a company spokesperson said, “We are giving users approximately one month to set their privacy options before we allow search engines to index these public search listings.” First it was Microsoft, then it was Google, could Facebook become the next company that people become concerns that it is too big and powerful?

AOL’s Netscape.com killed their social news a short 14 months after giving birth, “We received some feedback that people really do associate the Netscape brand with providing mainstream news that is editorially controlled. In fact, we specifically heard that our users do have a desire for a social news experience, but simply didn’t expect to find it on Netscape.com.”

Here are some of the other industry stories and news that we talked about in this edition of The Week That Was.

Poll:

Poll: Does Social Media make you more productive in your job?

Headlines:

Palm pulls the plug on Foleo mobile device

Bzz Agent returns to Canada to present at Word Up on October 16 in Toronto

Campaign Launches:

Aeroplan launchs online music store

BMO offers Canadian’s their on DreamWorld

Are you Canada’s Yummiest Mummy?

VEX launches “Sliced The Movie”

Deal Flow:

Infobright receives $8M Series B Investment Lead by IDG Ventures Boston

Yahoo! ads up another network, BlueLithium for $300 million

New Hires & Promotions:

Voice Mobility hires John Gavin as Western Regional Channel Manager

Cossette Communication Group appoints Monica Ruffo to Executive Vice-President – Chief Strategy Officer

AdFarm’s new CEO, Nolan Berg

Roger Jewett departs from Rare Method

Upcoming Event:

Word Up! ’07 – October 16

The Secret – October 31

As the World Searches II – October 31