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Geo-Location: Twitter and Facebook… Promising but Murky Future- Part II

Monday, July 5, 2010

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Geo-Location: Twitter and Facebook… A Promising but Murky Future- Part 2 To Tell-All or Not to Tell-All, That is the Question In part I, the great marketing and business potential of geo-location was discussed. However, this promise hinges largely on the willingness of people to continue to broadcast their lives in great detail on social [...]

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Privacy, Predators, and Bullies

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

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Part I: Social Shield Provides Online Protection for Children A few years ago, Sun Microsystem’s CEO Scott McNealy sparked the online privacy debate with the statement: “You have no privacy. Get over it.” Since then, social networking sites like Facebook have come under fire for disregarding users’ privacy concerns. Recently, both [...]

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Facebook changing again: “Like” instead of “Become a Fan”

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

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Last week, Facebook announced that it’s making a slight change to it’s wording, with some potentially big implications. In the next few weeks, instead of a user clicking a button saying “Become a Fan” to start following a brand , users will simply have to “Like” them. The change is purely a simple word change, [...]

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More changes to Facebook’s governing docs

Friday, April 2, 2010

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For almost a year now, Facebook has been engaging in an open and transparent system of governance. They now post all proposed changes to their governing documents before they go into effect to give us, the people who use Facebook, the chance to give our feedback on these proposals and listen to our input. Most online [...]

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Everyone’s buzzing about Windows 7

Thursday, October 22, 2009

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Windows 7 has been a long time coming, but finally went on sale today. Windows 7 is now available on new PCs as well as available as an upgrade on some old ones. No shock to anyone, it is rapidly becoming one the most talked about topics on the web. Everyone is talking about it on [...]

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Bring on the Facebook audio chat!

Thursday, September 17, 2009

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Facebook's code is showing that it is trying to implement audio chat with the help of Vivox.

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Facebook’s new feature: @mentions

Friday, September 11, 2009

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Facebook has announced that they will be supporting @mentions in status updates. Now, you can tag friends and other connections, including groups, events, applications, and Pages to your status posts.

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Facebook gives out free samples

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

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As Facebook’s performance advertising platform continues to grow, Facebook is adding new features to help advertisers get the most out of the system.

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Facebook makes a minor change to ad ratings

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

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Facebook makes a minor change to the ads interface in order to help deliver more relevant ads to Facebook users.

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Watch out Twitter, you’re not the only one with real-time search

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

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Facebook and Google have now implemented real-time search into their products.

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