One of our readers yesterday left a couple of interesting links in the comments section of our Beacon post. They provide the names of the companies that Facebook says are participating in its poorly conceived spy program Beacon. Here they are:
- AllPosters.com
- Blockbuster
- Bluefly.com
- Busted Tees
- CBS Interactive (CBSSports.com & Dotspotter)
- Citysearch
- CollegeHumor
- echomusic
- ExpoTV
- Gamefly
- Hotwire
- iWon
- Joost
- Kiva
- Kongregate
- LiveJournal
- Live Nation
- Mercantila
- National Basketball Association
- NYTimes.com
- Overstock.com
- Pronto.com
- (RED)
- Redlight
- SeamlessWeb
- Sony Online Entertainment LLC
- Sony Pictures
- STA Travel
- The Knot
- TripAdvisor
- Travel Ticker
- Travelocity
- TypePad
- viagogo
- Vox
- Yelp
- WeddingChannel.com
- Zappos.com
One site points out that Redlight is a mysterious addition—”I couldn’t find any site that went by that name that wasn’t an adult site.” We found something called Redlight Poker—maybe that’s the participating company?
[Updated to include missing companies—thanks Phantomfly!]
“Leading Websites Offer Facebook Beacon for Social Distribution” [Facebook] (Thanks to Gary!)
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Add Fandango – they gave me a beacon popup when I bought some tickets earlier this week.
@Rectilinear Propagation: Judging by the ad on saw on somebody’s blog last night, LiveJournal is using Beacon to announce when users have added new blog entries.
I imagine that they’ll eventually expand it to things like announcing when users leave comments on other blogs.
contact zappos: [www.zappos.com]
they’re too good to be part of this.
Epicurious should definitely be on there. I tested it a day or two ago and they were still participating.
I wonder about this now that LiveJournal has sold out to the Ruskies. You can bet I’ll be informing everyone on my comrades list.
@mrnovum:
I fucking HATE fandango.
Now that we know all about Beacon, Facebook’s online marketing initiative, we can feel better knowing that Facebook is striving to respect their users’ privacy. Yeah right!
@phantomfly
Perhaps the first * is to include [] as well as []
a guess….