US A-List bloggers start to line up against Facebook?: The thing about this is that these sort of guys are pretty influential – of these things are tipping points made.

Last year we predicted that 2007 would be the year that Privacy really hit the headlines, though we never believed Facebook would be the catalyst – my money was on Google or some small rapacious startup. Facebook was then a very benign player.

How things change….now, on the one hand, we have a desperate-to-monetize-at-$15bn company with (observably) less humble management, on the other a mounting storm in the blogosphere, increasing legal/regulatory interest, and early reports from customers about being caught by their friends with their wallets open being less than happy! [Hmmm.]