p2pnet news | P2P:- Earlier today p2pnet posted an item discussing a cynical, even for Rudolf Murdoch, MySpace plan to hijack “sometimes intensely personal information they make public on their MySpace Web pages,” as Dow Jones, so it can be sold to advertisers.

“I imagine that soon MySpace users will be judged not only on the basis of their blog entries, but also by the coolness of the ads on their pages,” says ITGumbo’s Leah Archibald in a p2pnet comment post, going on —-

” Sort of like in this online comic.” (Below)

And over at ITGumbo, she says:

The idea is that advertisers should be able to dramatically improve click-through rates … to products such as Hooters T-shirts and shot glasses with fake noses drawn on them.

Fortunately, anyone who’s worried about their data privacy is already NOT ON MYSPACE, so Fox should have no ethical concerns about the new initiative.

Do they have ethical concerns about anything?

.Slashdot it!

Also See:
cynical, even for Rudolf Murdoch – MySpace sells users’ personal info, September 19, 2007
ITGumbo – MySpace to target ads based on Ur d4t4, September 19, 2007

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