Tag: INSTANT PERSONALIZATION

Docs for Facebook is the Microsoft-made online document sharing and editing suite that launched as a lead partner of Facebook's Instant Personalization feature. (And it has a killer domain name: Docs.com.) Today, it's gotten a nice round of updates. First off, full text document search is now available. To address the possibility of having a bazillion results show up for more generic terms, ...

When Facebook introduced Instant Personalization, a feature that shares your info with Facebook's partner sites so that those sites can customize your experience, there was a lot of worry about privacy issues. Facebook does pick its partners carefully, though, and only three sites can use your info right now: Microsoft's Docs.com, Pandora and Yelp. Unfortunately for Facebook, and Facebook users, ...

If you thought this Facebook thing was just a passing fad, think again. Even the United States Senate has its eye on Facebook this week. A coalition of Democratic senators, led by New York's Chuck Schumer, wants Facebook to make its new Instant Personalization feature opt-in instead of opt-out. Instant Personalization is the feature that lets Facebook share your user info with a selection of ...