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Zuckerberg Addresses Facebook Nation About the New Design

Via Mashabe September 18, 2008 – 12:22 pm PDT – by Adam Ostrow 14 Comments In a rare blog post, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg addresses those that have been critical of the social network’s new design, which has … Continue reading

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Facebook, Google, FriendFeed (Who Else?) Dives Into Talk Like A Pirate Day

Via Tech Crunch by Michael Arrington on September 19, 2008 Ok, it’s clever. Facebook added a translated version of the site today in honor of Talk Like A Pirate Day. But instead of seeing Facebook in French or Esperanto, you … Continue reading

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Online vote-swapping legal but voter beware, Elections Canada warns

Via the CBC Canada’s electoral watchdog has deemed online vote-swapping to be legal but warned that the scheme could be used to dupe voters into casting their ballot for certain parties. Elections Canada began looking into the issue after a … Continue reading

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Jeremiah Owyang discusses how web tools and social media enable companies to connect with customers Case Study: How Sony Leveraged A Popular “Vampire” Facebook Widget To Reach It’s Community

Via Web Strategy by Jeremiah January 29th, 2008 | Category: Case Study, Facebook Strategy, Widget Strategy, Web Strategy A Widget Case Study Yesterday, I gave a teleconference on Facebook as a ready-made marketing program. I gave a few examples of … Continue reading

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Beacon Is Baaaaack!

Via Tech Crunch by Don Reisinger on September 18, 2008 Tom Kincaid, a top Facebook developer and blogger mentioned in the Facebook Developer Forums last night that Beacon seems to be rearing its ugly head once again. According to Kincaid, … Continue reading

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Facebook Serves Up Leftover Bac’n

Via Mashable September 18, 2008 – 3:49 am PDT – by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins Add a Comment Blogger, author and Facebook developer Jesse Stay today discovered that we may be seeing soon on Facebook a return to the dreaded Project … Continue reading

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Don’t Let Facebook Force The New Profile On You. Here’s How To Get The Old One Back

Via Tech Crunch by Michael Arrington on September 16, 2008 Don’t like the look of the new Facebook? Upset over last week’s mandatory changeover? You can do something about it, at least for now. If you really want to keep … Continue reading

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Microsoft’s Real Problem: Facebook is the New Outlook, and Other ways that Redmond is not Listening to Generation Y

Via Tech Crunch from *TechCrunch* by Dan Kimerling Microsoft, for all its problems, is a great software company. Its core products, the Windows operating system and the Office productivity suite, still dominate their respective markets and, while they are continually … Continue reading

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Facebook Politics?

Via the New York Times By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN Published: September 12, 2008 In late August, John McCain’s Facebook page featured a martial semi-profile of the candidate emblazoned with the slogan, “Country First: The Official Home of John McCain on Facebook.” … Continue reading

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Facebook Isn’t A Social Network. And Stop Trying to Make New Friends There

Via Tech Crunch by Michael Arrington on September 15, 2008 A controversy is brewing over a popular Facebook application called PackRat, where users collect sets of illustrated cards for points and levels. The company behind the application, Alamofire, says that … Continue reading

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