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By Chuck Richard
Vice President & Lead Analyst
Hartsdale, New York

August 7, 2008

Users and publishers need to be alert to how disruptive and invasive new business networking services can be. In Outsell's opinion, an information service has an obligation to put flashing red lights in front of users to alert them if their "information exhaust" - tracking of their information usage - will become news distributed to thousands of their "friends."

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