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Facebook Inc. founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, last seen making googly eyes at Hong Kong Richie Rich Li Ka-shing, would be well-advised to deal with the public relations mess over the social networking firm’s proposed marketing program. So says Robert Scoble, who takes the Web 2.0 “It boy” to task this day for dropping out of sight as critics continue to kvetch about Facebook’s plan to use the network to send information about what members are buying to their contacts on the site.
“This story is NOT going away,” Scoble writes. “Even if this particular story goes away, there’s a bad taste in our mouths because Facebook tried to do something that clearly wasn’t for the users.”
Where’s your $15 billion valuation now, Bill Gates? You’d think Microsoft Corp.’s recent $240 million investment in Facebook might entail the right for the software company supremo to instruct young Zuckerberg a thing or two about crisis PR. After all, Gates certainly has taken his lumps in the press over the years, while today he’s an early candidate for secular sainthood, thanks largely to his commendable charitable works.
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