I’m by nature a pretty trusting sort of person. But one of the effects of my having gone to China for a couple of weeks late in 2007 is that I can no longer look unquestioningly at a table of statistics about anything to do with the Internet. Because so often the figures I read

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In November there was a brouhaha about Facebook’s Beacon innovation, which for a lot of people represented an unacceptable intrusion on privacy. GigaOm saw it as “a privacy disaster waiting to happen”. It looks to me as if we are concluding the year with, for practical purposes, Facebook off the hook, but the jury still

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