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AppData – Facebook application leaderboards, charts, and metrics
Facebook Apps iOS Apps …. Our Network. Inside Facebook is devoted to
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Latest Skype for Mac Beta has Facebook Integration and Ads – TNW …
By Courtney Boyd Myers
Today, Skype is launching Skype 5.4 for Mac Beta with the same Facebook
integration found in Skype 5.5 for Windows.
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The Next Web
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Facebook’s New Friend-Sorting Features – NYTimes.com
By By PAUL BOUTIN
This week, Facebook is rolling out two new features designed to make it
easier to share posts with small groups of people.
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Gadgetwise
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Craig Kanalley: Google’s Uphill Battle With Facebook Just Got Steeper
By Craig Kanalley
Google+ has experienced quite the roller coaster ride since launching its
field trial in June. Now, it’s time to consider their eulogy.
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The Blog
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New Facebook Feature: A Subscription to Friends’ Feeds – NYTimes …
By By NICK BILTON
Facebook introduced a feature Wednesday that allows people to subscribe to
parts of a news feed without having to become Facebook friends. The feature
mimics Twitter’s follow feature.
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Bits
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Facebook Adds Asymmetrical Relationships with New Subscribe …
By Liz Gannes
Though asymmetrical relationships are something Facebook has long resisted,
Facebook users will now be allowed to offer people the option to subscribe
to their public updates.
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AllThingsD
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Facebook takes on Twitter, Google+ and Blackberry
Telegraph.co.uk
Facebook has taken on Twitter, Google+ and Blackberry with a series of
updates and clever tweaks, ahead of its annual developers conference next
week. Emma Barnett explains why. Facebook is intent on becoming a web
platform and not just a site. …
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Another Music Startup Is Partnering With Facebook For The Upcoming Music
Service
Business Insider
Deezer, a France-based streaming music service, will also partner with
Facebook when it launches its new music product next week. The news comes
to us from a source plugged in to the music industry. We also saw this
tweet from prominent angel investor …
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Facebook Should Buy WebOS from HP: Analyst
eWeek
Facebook should acquire webOS from HP and use it as the launching pad for
its own content services, according to Jefferies & Co. analyst Peter Misek.
At least on research firm believes HP should sell webOS to Facebook. That’s
right to the the world’s …
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Facebook Friend Risk: The Kweku Adoboli Dilemma
International Business Times
With social media such a useful tool, the first thing journalists from
around the world did Thursday morning after learning the name of the man
authorities have in custody was go to Adoboli’s Facebook page. Since
Facebook has 750 million users …
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Revised Facebook bill lightens restrictions
Lakenewsonline.com
House of Representatives and Senate unanimously passed Senate Bill 54,
which prohibits teachers from communicating with students through social
media like Facebook and Twitter. By Rance Burger The so-called “Facebook
law” remains one of the main …
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Is Facebook losing its identity?
BBC News
What’s up with Facebook? Every day this week seems to bring a new
announcement about some tweak to the way the network operates, and that’s
before next week’s F8 event, where we expect to hear about a music service,
possibly operated by Spotify. …
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Groupon ‘lining up IPO as Facebook delays’
The Guardian
However, an even bigger technology flotation by Facebook is reported to
have been delayed until late 2012. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has
shelved plans to go public until September 2012, the Financial Times
reported, in order to keep employees …
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Web’s new free hit: Stream on
New York Post
By GARETT SLOANE Two more streaming music services, Rdio and MOG, are
adding free versions of their services as competition heats up for online
listeners and Facebook is set to launch an upgraded music platform. Until
now, both Rdio and MOG offered …
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Facebook IPO put off until late 2012, FT says
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Facebook, the social media giant whose initial public offering of stock has
been widely anticipated, has decided to put off its IPO until late 2012,
the Financial Times reported. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive,
wants to wait until next …
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Facebook Delays IPO
Reuters
By Brent Lang at TheWrap The hotly anticipated public debut of Facebook has
been pushed back until late 2012, the Financial Times reports citing
“people familiar with the company.” The social media giant had been
expected to go public in April of 2012, …
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Non-dating socializer Facebook app Shaker wins Disrupt Cup
VentureBeat
Shaker, an online chat room where Facebook users can interact with other
Facebook users, won the Disrupt Cup as the most disruptive company at the
TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference in San Francisco. It’s kind of like
Habbo Hotel, where you can walk …
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Charlie Sheen’s Today Show Interview
HollyscoopTV
Follow Twitter: read more Fan Facebook:
read more Charlie Sheen gives Matt Lauer an
interview in regards to his meltdown. Images by Wenn.com. Video hosted by
Diana Madison / Twitter: …
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Social Media Alert – Facebook

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UPDATE: Facebook Suggests Subscribing To Profiles
By Jackie Cohen
Facebook is suggesting that you subscribe to people’s public status updates
and customize how much of their feeds you receive.
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All Facebook
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Facebook’s Subscribe Button to Come With Personalized …
By Josh Constine
Facebook will be adding a personalized recommendation feature to the
Subscribe button that it launched earlier today, helping users find
interesting non-friends to receive public updates from. Similar to friend
suggestions that are based on …
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Inside Facebook
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Facebook IPO Delayed By Mark Zuckerberg: REPORT
By The Huffington Post News Editors
(Reuters) – Facebook will delay its initial public offering until the end
of next year so employees can focus on developing products for the No. 1
social networking website, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
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The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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Facebook Subscribe Button
By Martin Brinkmann
Up until now it was not really that easy to customize what appears in your
news feed and what not. That’s a big issue if you do not want to see game
updates in.
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gHacks Technology News | Latest…
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Facebook adds “subscribe” function to profiles | VentureBeat
By Matthew Lynley
Social networking titan Facebook today unveiled a “subscribe” feature,
which adds news feed updates to a user’s profile from other profiles
without having to become “friends” on the site. Any updates a Facebook user
posts publicly go into …
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Report: Facebook delays IPO until late 2012
Los Angeles Times
People familiar with the company told the Financial Times that Facebook
founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants employees to focus on developing
products for the world’s most popular social networking site rather than on
collecting an IPO payout. …
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Is Facebook Copying Google+ And Twitter? VP Of Engineering, Mike
Schroepfer …
Washington Post
By TechCrunch.com, Mike Schroepfer, Vice President of Engineering at
Facebook, spoke with Jason Kincaid at this morning’s TechCrunch Disrupt
conference. The topic of the conversation focused on many of Facebook’s
newest features, including the recently …
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Biz Break: Facebook continues changing as IPO rumors swirl, and Yahoo
board …
San Jose Mercury News
By Jeremy C. Owens Today: Facebook offers a new feature similar to rival’s
for a second straight day as report says IPO targeted for late 2012. Also:
Yahoo (YHOO) investor steps up campaign to oust board chairman and other
members, and Wall Street …
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Facebook, Maps Rule Android Apps
InformationWeek (blog)
Facebook, Google Search and YouTube rounded out third through fifth places
overall. Interestingly, Advanced Task Killer Free came in sixth, used by
26.1% overall of the sample audience. For men that fell to 24.2% but for
women, it climbed to 28.3%. …
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Missouri Senate passes revision to ‘teacher Facebook’ law
Christian County Headliner News
Missouri State senators have unanimously passed a bill revising a the new
“teacher Facebook” law with a 33-0 vote Sept. 12. Sponsored by Sen.
Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield, Senate Bill 1, formally SB 54, would
repeal the law that barred teachers from …
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TechBits: Solar-powered processor; ‘Subscribing’ on Facebook; Digital
Folio …
Washington Post (blog)
By AP, SAN FRANCISCO — A solar cell the size of a stamp. That’s all Intel
Corp. researchers needed to power a computer processor that could hold a
tantalizing vision for the low-power chips of the future. The company
showed off the feat this week at …
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Facebook Launches Subscribe Button for Following Anyone’s Public Updates
Mashable
Facebook has launched a Subscribe button that lets you follow the public
updates of others, regardless of whether you’re Facebook friends. The new
subscription options are part of Facebook’s effort to give users more
control over their Facebook …
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Facebook Smart Lists One Ups Google+ Circles
eWeek
Facebook smart lists provide automated friend lists, something Google+
lacks currently. However, Facebook did add an acquaintance list, following
Google+ same-named Circle. It’s a battle of copycats and oneupsmanship. One
of the features that helped …
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On Facebook, Twitter, influence can become profit
Christian Science Monitor
Companies are beginning to harness social media’s new ROI – return on
influence – by making it personal on their Facebook, Twitter sites.
Taylor Swift performs during the CMA Fan Fest in Nashville, Tenn., this
summer. The country-pop superstar uses her …
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Facebook Updates Android App with More Privacy Controls
PCWorld
By John P. Mello Jr., PCWorld Sep 14, 2011 9:34 AM If you liked the recent
changes Facebook made to improve privacy, then you’ll want to upgrade
immediately to the latest version of the social network’s app for Android
smartphones. …
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‘Dirty Dancing’ Joins Facebook to Release Game
ABC News (blog)
A new Facebook game based on the iconic 1987 movie “Dirty Dancing” starring
Jennifer Grey and the late Patrick Swayze has been released (Lionsgate Home
Entertainment). Baby’s out of the corner and on Facebook. The chance to
“have the time of your life” …
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Here’s Why AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft Are Teaming Up to Fight Facebook and
Google
Forbes
Like rival nations banding together to fight off an alien invasion in some
bad science fiction movie, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft are setting aside their
competitive differences and teaming up to take on their own existential
threats: Facebook and Google. …
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Mo. Senate passes revision to teacher-Facebook law
CBS News
The legislation would repeal a law barring teachers from using websites
that give “exclusive access” to students, such as sending private messages
on Facebook. Senators voted 33-0 Wednesday to send the bill to the House.
The Missouri law was placed on …
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Facebook on DC hot seat over kids’ privacy
CBS News
Facebook representatives were slated to meet with lawmakers on Capitol Hill
Wednesday about children’s online safety. As CBS News congressional
correspondent Nancy Cordes reports, the issue’s been a hot topic as social
networking sites become a bigger …
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Facebook’s New “Smart Lists” Keep You From Having to Cultivate …
By Whitson Gordon
We’ve talked about the usefulness of friend lists before, but Facebook’s
finally taken the burden off you and is rolling out a new “smart lists”
feature, that automatically lets you view the feed of your close friends,
people from your work, and more.
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Lifehacker
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PlaySay Uses Facebook To Help You Learn A Language …
By Alexia Tsotsis
“Your Facebook friends are your new classmates. Check ins, status updates
and pictures are your course materials,” founder Ryan Meinzer tells me
about the app. Indeed, seeing an update in Spanish on your friend’s profile
page does pique …
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TechCrunch
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MediaPost Publications Facebook Upgrades Friend Lists 09/14/2011
By Mark Walsh
Facebook’s feature for making lists of different friends has been around
for years. It never got much traction because it was too clunky and
time-consuming to use. The social networking giant aims to change that with
improvements to Friend …
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Will Facebook Users Tune In To Ooyala Social TV?
By David Cohen
The social TV field has a new entrant in Ooyala Social, a
high-definition-quality Facebook platform introduced by online video
company Ooyala.
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All Facebook
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Shun Your Fake Facebook Friends with This New Feature
By Ryan Tate
Finally, Facebook is helping users create a list of real friends inside
their official friends list. There’s no need to share everything with
everyone, after all. But watch out, because people will know when they’re
downgraded to your D-list.
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Facebook lets users have separated social, er, Circles
Register
By Kelly Fiveash • Get more from this author Facebook slotted a new
feature into the ubiquitous social network yesterday that immediately got
the blogosphere arguing over whether the company was copying Google+ and
its people-curating Circles function. …
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Non-profit must rehire workers fired for Facebook comments
Computerworld
The HUB case is the first involving Facebook comments to be decided by an
Administrative Law Judge, according to the NLRB. In a 14-page ruling
earlier this month, Judge Arthur Amchan ordered Hispanics United of Buffalo
Inc (HUB) to immediately …
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Winklevoss twins in Facebook jibe
BBC News
Two brothers who were involved in a long-running legal dispute with
Facebook have poked fun at their court battle in an advertisement for nuts.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss sued Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg,
accusing him of stealing their ideas. …
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Holland America Line Launches Alaska Cruise Sweepstakes on Facebook
Sacramento Bee
13, 2011 — /PRNewswire/ — Holland America Line recently launched a
contest on Facebook that will award one fan a seven-day Alaska cruise for
four including two verandah staterooms. The sweepstakes runs through Nov.
30, 2011 and the winner will be …
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The Sarasota Convention and Visitors Bureau is “Searching For Sara” With …
Sacramento Bee
13, 2011 — /PRNewswire/ — The Sarasota Convention and Visitors Bureau
(SCVB) is “Searching For Sara” with a new Facebook contest offering
individuals named Sara the chance to win a themed trip to this Gulf Coast
destination. …
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Improved Friend Lists | Facebook
This week, it will be easier than ever to see more from the people you care
about and simpler to share with exactly the right people using Friend
Lists. Want to …
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Facebook to make list sorting automatic
San Francisco Chronicle
Facebook’s “smart lists” will automatically organize friends by
affiliation, starting with work, school, family and city. The
social-networking behemoth says that users can still manually exclude
people. — Facebook said Tuesday that it is tweaking the …
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Internet ‘troll’ jailed for mocking dead teenagers on Facebook
Telegraph.co.uk
Sean Duffy, 25, wrote abusive messages on Facebook tribute pages and even
uploaded videos to YouTube taunting the youths and their families, as part
of the practice known as “trolling”. Among his victims was Natasha
MacBryde, 15, who died when hit by a …
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Twitter, Facebook and RIM face more questions from British MPs over riots
Financial Times (blog)
Facebook, Twitter and BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion might have been
forgiven for thinking that the British government’s interest in their
technologies’ role in last month’s riots had waned, after it abandoned
plans to block social media during …
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Facebook for Android version 1.7 is out
ZDNet (blog)
By Emil Protalinski | September 13, 2011, 9:09pm PDT Summary: Facebook for
Android version 1.7 adds the ability to tag friends and places in posts, a
new design for Profile and Group Walls, and improves photo browsing.
Facebook has updated its native …
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Facebook makes it easier to group friends with ‘Smart Lists’
Los Angeles Times
It’s official: Facebook has come up with an easier way for you to share
photos, posts and updates with smaller groups of friends. We originally
reported on this new feature called “Smart Lists,”which automatically
groups friends, last week. …
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Facebook unveils new ‘smart lists’ as social networking site’s answer to …
New York Daily News
BY Helen Kennedy Did you finally just figure out the last change to how
Facebook handles your friends? The world’s largest social network is
rolling out new “smart lists” to categorize who sees what you post. The
idea is you can now upload baby …
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Ep. 1551: We all spend way too much time on Facebook
CNET
Ep. 1551: We all spend way too much time on Facebook Video Transcript Today
it’s Tuesday September 13 2000 — my name is Steven beach of I’m Wilson
tang and I’m Brian Sullivan — buzz allows — – podcast of in the
terminally today it’s episode. 1551. …
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“Dirty Dancing” game launching on Facebook
Reuters
Last May, TheWrap first broke the news that the studio was planning to
capitalize on the 1987 romantic drama’s strong Facebook presence by
creating an online game. The Facebook fan page for “Dirty Dancing” has been
an unexpected phenomenon for the …
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Facebook Racks Up 53.5 Billion US User Minutes in May
Sci-Tech Today
Facebook had 140.3 million US adult visitors last May, when the social
networking site reached 70 percent of all active US Internet users,
according to a new Nielsen report. Moreover, US adults collectively spent
nearly 53.5 billion minutes on Facebook …
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New York mom arrested for egging on girls’ fight after Facebook dispute
Pocono Record
She then beat up another child who was watching after word of the fight
erupted on Facebook, Suffolk County cops said. But Melin claims her
daughter was being bullied online. “She is a sweetheart — she’s a
wonderful girl,” Melin said of her daughter. …
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Freebie: Facebook Fan Page GUI PSD – Smashing Magazine
a Facebook Fan Page GUI PSD, designed by Hike and released for Smashing
Magazine and its readers. The PSD will speed up the process of creating …
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Facebook passwords are not case sensitive (update)
ZDNet (blog)
By Emil Protalinski | September 13, 2011, 12:26pm PDT Summary: If you have
characters in your Facebook password, there’s a second password that you
can log in to the social network with. I just made a small discovery about
Facebook passwords: they are …
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Your list of Facebook friends just got smarter
San Francisco Chronicle
(09-13) 14:26 PDT — Facebook said today that it is tweaking the way
members can organize and view their network’s activities by automatically
creating lists of friends, colleagues and acquaintances. Facebook, which is
rolling out the changes this week …
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Kixeye’s War Commander brings real-time strategy to Facebook gaming
VentureBeat
Kixeye is bringing real-time strategy games to Facebook today with the
launch of its War Commander public beta test. Inspired by games like
Command & Conquer on the PC, War Commander is aimed at recruiting a new
generation of Facebook gamers to a …
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Biz Break: Microsoft’s mobile vision and Facebook’s answer to Google+
San Jose Mercury News
Also: Facebook offers its new version of lists to fight Google (GOOG)+
Circles as tech stocks pull Nasdaq higher. Microsoft forcefully forged
ahead into the post-PC era Tuesday, unveiling an early version of Windows 8
that focuses on touch-screen …
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Recommended: Winklevoss twins find new way to make money off Facebook
msnbc.com
For regular updates, follow us on Twitter @msnbc_business By Marisa Taylor
The Winklevoss twins may have already raked in a $65 million settlement
from their highly publicized lawsuit against Facebook, but now they’re
cashing in on their notoriety yet …
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New York fashion is not just a pretty Facebook
AFP
Many others are on Facebook, which Lacoste used to show its six million
followers the New York show. The buyers won’t be left out either. Duby
Novak came from Brazil, where she has several clothing shops, and avidly
filmed proceedings with a mobile …
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Facebook Revamps Friend Lists [PICS]
Mashable
Facebook is launching a massive upgrade of its Friend Lists feature in an
effort to make it more useful for users. The feature, which debuted in
2007, is currently used by less than 5% of users, according to Facebook CEO
Mark Zuckerberg. …
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Facebook Page Calls for Action Against Israeli Embassy in Amman
Fox News
A Facebook page calls for a fresh protest against the Israeli embassy in
Amman, Jordan, sparking fears of more violence. A Facebook page created
over the weekend calls for a march Thursday targeting Israel’s embassy in
Amman, Jordan, just days after a …
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Ooyala lets publishers sell, rent premium video on Facebook
ZDNet (blog)
By Emil Protalinski | September 13, 2011, 10:04am PDT Summary: Ooyala
Social is a new product that lets Facebook users share video, live chat
while viewing, discover new content, and watch video across multiple
devices. Ooyala has announced Ooyala …
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Dustin Moskovitz, Facebook Co-Founder, On What’s Wrong With Google+ At …
Huffington Post
Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook and, more recently, of enterprise
collaboration software company Asana, spoke to TechCrunch Editor in Chief
Erick Schonfeld at Disrupt this afternoon in a brief interview. The subject
of their chat, …
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Facebook, Google Maps, Gmail Rule Android Roost: Nielsen
eWeek
Nielsen measured Android smartphone application usage and found Facebook,
Google Maps, Gmail, Google Search are among the top apps used in mobile.
What applications are the most popular on the Android platform? Answer:
Many of the same apps that are …
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Facebook changes Friends Lists
Washington Post
According to a blog post from the social network, Facebook has built in
three new list features that will be available to all users this week.
Smart lists automatically populate groups based on those who have the same
workplace listed as you, …
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Winklevoss twins poke Facebook fun with nut ad
AFP
LOS ANGELES — Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have shown a sense of humor –
and made a little extra cash presumably — by starring in an ad for
pistachios poking fun at their notorious Facebook legal battle. The
identical twins, who waged an epic battle …
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Gay Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Speaks Out Against NC …
By Perez Hilton
Bravo! Facebook founder Chris Hughes is stepping up and speaking out
against an anti-gay marriage amendment in North Carolina, which would ban
same sex marriage in their state constitution. Not…
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Facebook For Android Updated In The Android Market – Brings New …
By Chris Chavez
Facebook for Android was just updated in the Market today. The update
includes the usual bug-fixes and improvements and although it wasn’t
mentioned in the.
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Facebook gets a noticeable update, starts to suck less | Android …
By Phil Nickinson
Android Central To say that Facebook’s Android app has been … less than
exciting … would be the understatement of the past year or so. Hopefully
tonight’s update is a sign of greater things to come, as Version 1.7 brings
some UI tweaks and …
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Americans are Drawn to Social Networks, with Facebook Leading the Way
PCWorld
Facebook was named the top social media destination, taking up more than 53
million minutes from 140 million visitors in the United States for the
month of May. Blogger was the next most popular destination among American
social media users. …
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The Circuit: Facebook beefs up D.C. office, CTIA supports jobs bill, net …
Washington Post (blog)
By Hayley Tsukayama LEADING THE DAY: Facebook is adding two more members to
its DC office, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. Erin Egan, currently a
partner at Covington & Burling, will join as senior policy adviser and
director of privacy. …
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Facebook continues DC hiring spree with White House, privacy expert hires
Washington Post (blog)
By Cecilia Kang Facebook.com’s mastermind, Mark Zuckerberg. (PAUL SAKUMA -
ASSOCIATED PRESS) Facebook on Tuesday announced new hires for its
Washington policy and lobbying office, drawing high-profile figures from
the White House and a privacy expert …
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Killing It on Android: Things Owned by Google. And Facebook!
All Things Digital
Answer: Overwhelmingly, Android users use stuff made by Google — Google
search, Google Maps, Gmail and and YouTube — along with Facebook. The
data comes from meters Nielsen plugs directly onto its sample set’s
smartphones, so it’s certainly worth …
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UmeNow.com — Latina Mom-in-Chief Declares War on Facebook
MarketWatch (press release)
13, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — The anti-Facebook mom and founder of
UmeNow.com, Evelyn Castillo-Bach, is in New York City to promote her bold
campaign “Facebook is Trash, National Privacy Celebration.” This week she
exposes Facebook as a data …
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Deep Facebook Analytics on Posts, Surveys and Comments Now Available
with …
MarketWatch (press release)
13, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Attensity, the leading provider of text
analytics solutions for Customer Experience Management (CEM), today
announced an extension to its offering that includes the industry’s first
real-time, in-depth Facebook …
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Facebook sucks up Americans’ time
CNET (blog)
The folks at Nielsen have confirmed what we’ve long suspected–we waste
more time on Facebook than anywhere else. The famed media metrics and
ratings company says in its latest social-media report that Americans spend
more time on Facebook than any …
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Police: Facebook post nabs deadbeat dad
KPHO Phoenix
“Our dispatch center received a phone call from a woman in Oregon who
called to advise that her ex-husband, Matthew Ledbetter, had posted on his
Facebook account that he was in Chandler at the mall,” Tyler said.
Apparently Ledbetter decided to use the …
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