Posts Tagged ‘facebook’

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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 see prominent new media execs joining the ranks of old media companies [...]

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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 it any good? Now both Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect are [...]

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 were violated when a MySpace photo showing her engaged in a bit
of boozy buccaneering, as well as posts complaining [...]

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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 your friends list, can now be integrated into third-party applications, which can [...]

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 overview of Connect as well as competing services from MySpace (Data Availability) and Google (Friend [...]

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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 this year.
Those ties may explain why Facebook was willing to ignore its own privacy policy [...]

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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 people who backed them (Altura Ventures), by ranking them as the biggest Facebook app creator [...]

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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 big growth phase. With that kind of cash, the company could hire as many people as it [...]

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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 environment. Some employers solidified that notion by barring visits to such sites [...]

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 long run by limiting the way staff communicate, the think tank said.
Social networking can encourage employees to [...]