Google plans on selling endorsements

According to last week's announcement, besides the fact that Facebook is already doing it, Google will soon take the same route of selling users endorsements. In other words, people's private posts and other important stuff about themselves, or something they might have liked, will eventually become public, and it does not mean just airing their good or bad experiences at some hotel.

The timing is not particularly the most appropriate since these days there is a lot of talk on both sides of the Atlantic about information privacy concerns which are raising eyebrows at all levels, including high ranking government officials from some European countries.  

Although these are supposed to be "minor changes" to the company policy to take effect on

Global Mobile Awards at MWC 2012

Source : GSMA MWC

Best Mobile App for Consumers

Rovio Entertainment Ltd. for Angry Birds Rio

Best Mobile App for Enterprise

Citrix Systems for Citrix Receiver

Judges’ Choice - Best Overall Mobile App

WhatsApp Inc. for WhatsApp

Most Innovative Mobile App

SwiftKey

Best Mobile Advertising & Marketing Campaign

Brandtone for Carling Black Label "Be the Coach"

Innovation in Mobile Advertising

Poken for the leading CMS for NFC

Mobile Marketing & Advertising Agency of the Year

[am.o.bee]

Best Enterprise Mobile Service

Fiberlink for MaaS360

Best Consumer Mobile Service

Google for Google Maps for Android

Best Network Product or Solution for Serving Customers

Turkcell for Turkcell TiklaKonus

Facebook and Amazon plan to sell smartphones

While Android has proven to be tremendously successful for Google, Facebook is intending to compete for the enormous advertising market, as well as for similar opportunities which the search giant is enjoying at this moment.


The critical thing for the user to consider has to do with the well known issues and challenges in terms of security that the everyone would potentially face knowing that the much talked about