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Washington Post CEO Joins Facebook’s Board

Via Mashable December 11, 2008 – 12:23 pm PDT – by Adam Ostrow Everyone knows that newspapers are in a state of decline, in large part due to the rise of online media. So, you would think that perhaps you’d … Continue reading

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Facebook Connect vs Google Friend Connect: Fight!

Via Mashable December 5, 2008 – 8:42 am PDT – by Stan Schroeder 22 Comments Amidst all the talk about data portability and net identity, all that end users want to know is: how can I use this, and is … Continue reading

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Court rejects appeal over student-teacher drunk MySpace pics

Via Ars Technica By Julian Sanchez | Published: December 05, 2008 – 10:01AM CT Stacy Snyder, a federal court has ruled, won’t be teaching kids the three Arrrrs any time soon: They’ve rejected Snyder’s claim that her First Amendment rights … Continue reading

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Facebook Connect is Here; It’s Like OpenID for Dummies

Via Mashable December 4, 2008 – 1:11 pm PDT – by Adam Ostrow Facebook Connect is now open for business, allowing any developer to let users login to their websites using their Facebook credentials. Additionally, other key Facebook features, like … Continue reading

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Biggest Battle Yet For Social Networks: You, Your Identity And Your Data On The Open Web

Via Tech Crunch by Michael Arrington on November 30, 2008 Today’s the day that Facebook makes their big press push for their Facebook Connect service, which was first announced last May. The NY Times has a story giving a broad … Continue reading

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The Very Curious Microsoft-Facebook User Data Relationship

Via Tech Crunch by Michael Arrington on November 14, 2008 Facebook’s ties to Microsoft go back to 2006 when they first signed an advertising deal. A year later they took a $240 million investment, and the advertising relationship was extended … Continue reading

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Adonomics Folds Into Adknowledge. How Much Are Those Facebook Apps Worth Now?

Via Tech Crunch by Robin Wauters on November 3, 2008 Remember Adonomics (formerly Appaholic), the fishy analytics directory website for Facebook applications that we uncovered was used to pimp a service (the UADA, dead and buried now) from the same … Continue reading

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Facebook May Be Growing Too Fast. And Hitting The Capital Markets Again.

Via Tech Crunch by Michael Arrington on October 31, 2008 When Facebook raised $240 million from Microsoft in 2007, and another $235 million in debt and equity in 2008, everyone thought they had plenty of cash to get through their … Continue reading

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Study: Surfing Social Networks at Work Could Be Good for You

Via Mashable October 29, 2008 – 1:21 pm PDT – by Paul Glazowski It wasn’t long ago that people took a hard look at the social networking world and saw that such activities didn’t quite jive with the typical workplace … Continue reading

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Bosses ‘should embrace Facebook’

Via the BBC Companies should not dismiss staff who use social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo at work as merely time-wasters, a Demos study suggests. Attempts to control employees’ use of such software could damage firms in the … Continue reading

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