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Facebook who's IPO is said to being filed this week, takes nearly 1/3 of all US display ads according to new data. The social network is gearing up for their public launch which, if the IPO is ...
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Twitter who has over 200 Million users, 50 Million of which log in daily, has quite a few celebrities. With many celebrities who have Millions of followers, the money that can be made from advertising is very ...
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Facebook has been working on getting their new profile design, Timeline, rolled out to all users. The company ran into some problems after a company, Timelines.com, claimed that the social network infringed on their trademark back in ...
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Twitter has recently come under fire after announcing that they will now be censoring tweets on a country-by-country basis if required by law. With censorship still on many people's minds, this has raised many suspicions and caused ...
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Facebook is said to be filing their IPO as early as next week according to a new report. The social network has been gearing up for it's inevitable IPO this year that is expected to raise up ...
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Google Earth was recently updated to version 6.2 and included in the new update is integration with Google+. The social network is growing at a rapid rate and Google is integrating the site with more and more ...
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Social networks such as Twitter and Facebook have been a bit upset over Google's recent changes to their social search product. If you're not familiar with the changes, basically it integrates Google Plus results into your normal, ...
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It feels some days that the only reason we use the Web any more is to do nothing but share mundane crap with people who probably couldn't care less. Oh I am sure there are some gems ...
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News of Facebook's IPO has been floating around for the last year. At one of the largest IPO's in tech history, they along with investors, stand to make a pretty penny. Also to profit from the IPO ...
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Who would have thought. I mean if you hang around any of the hot social networks like Facebook, Twitter, or even Google+ you'd think that they are being used by nothing but U.S. males with nothing better to do ...
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You know there might be something to this whole social media thing; or at least that's what New York's police department seems to think.
Don't think that they are going to get all buddy buddy with you on ...
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Social media is often trotted out as a negative influence on teens that rely heavily on Facebook, Twitter, and similar mediums to interact with their peers freely.
Predators, bullying and lack of empathy are often cited as consequences ...
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Founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange has warned users of popular social networks of the dangers of building a ready-made dossier for intelligence services voluntarily.
In an interview with Russia Today, Assange specifically stated he did not think the services ...
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For your next PowerPoint, you're welcome.
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How would you like it if your boss listened in on your private, off-hours phone conversations or peeked into your bedroom as you engaged in whatever it is you do in there, I ain't judging? Is the ...
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If you're sworn to uphold the law or hope to be, should you have to bend over and allow hiring directors to sift through your personal communications and base personnel decisions on that content?
If a recent piece ...
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If you planned to start a website with a domain name ending in "book," Facebook might be all up in your grill about that.
A tiny little start-up aimed at teachers- a demographic notoriously terrified of Facebook- hasn't ...
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Wow, this will surely be getting the blogosphere in an uproar as the news spread but apparently Digg, and possibly other social networks, has been targeted by a large group of influential conservative members in an effort ...
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I have always maintained that people are fooling themselves if they think social networks will always keep their promise to protect your personal and generated data. At some point, whether for collateral or as demographic information to ...
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Yesterday my good friend Louis Gray penned one of his best blog posts in some time. It is a very concise and clear look at the whole data portability issue that is a hot topic among the digerati ...
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Earlier this week Jesse Stay, the man behind the Twitter service SocialToo, wrote a rather interesting post suggesting that in order to move the web forward to that mystical 3.0 version we need to start looking at ...
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It is interesting that during all the hoopla surrounding the memo the brass of the Washington post sent to their troops about the use of Twitter and other social media services the US military ...
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