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Exclusive Interview: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg on the Value of Viral Loops

This interview was conducted during research for my book, Viral Loop. You can read an excerpt here at Fast Company, or find out what your friends are really worth by installing the Viral Loop widget. While still a teenager Mark ...READ»

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Now You Can Make Phone Calls From Twitter, Thanks to Jajah

Twitter's about to get a fascinating new tool in its social communications toolbox courtesy of Jajah: Phone calling. It's a VOIP solution that will work for anyone with a Twitter account. Does this signal a future as an extensive ...READ»

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LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook Productivity--In 15 Minutes a Day

I learn so much from listening to George that I not only sat in on *three* of his calls in the last two months, but also made a point of seeking him out for a dinner meeting when I was in San Francisco. If you only pick one teleclass to attend in the next few months, make it this one. George has a lot to say about how socially conscious businesses and organizations can benefit from an active social media program that doesn't overwhelm. READ»

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Facebook Announces It Is "Cashflow Positive"

In a shocking late-afternoon announcement, Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg said his company is now a sustainable business. He made the announcement via the Facebook Blog this afternoon. "We're also succeeding at building Facebook ...READ»

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What's Wrong With Facebook Prototypes?

Facebook has created its own Google Labs equivalent, dubbed "Facebook Prototypes," according to Mashable. The division released its first product last week, a desktop notifier for Mac OS X. The company has two more little apps ...READ»

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How to Make the Best Damn Facebook Notifier for Mac

Facebook just released their first experimental desktop app. It's a menu-bar add on for Mac OS X called "desktop notifications," but once it's installed, it does more than notify--but not much more. You can update your status, as well ...READ»

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Crowdsourcing 101: Why Vitaminwater's Facebook App Can't Lose

When it comes to game-changing ideas, is there really wisdom in crowds? Given several efforts at crowdsourcing creative content and product development in recent years, more than a few companies seem to think so. What's less clear is ...READ»

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Debunking the "Facebook Exodus:" Some May Leave, but More Stay Longer Than Ever

There's been a lot of talk about the legendary "Facebook exodus" of late, not least of which stemmed from a New York Times Magazine article of the same name detailing why, for one reason or another, users are beginning to flee the ...READ»

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Silentale Will Archive Your Every Word, but Is a Searchable Life a Liability?

The perpetually declining cost of data storage has made our lives, especially the online versions of them, more savable and searchable than ever before. Server farms are growing faster than strawberries on FarmVille, with demand for ...READ»

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Does Using Facebook Boost Brainpower While Twittering Diminishes It?

There's an interesting piece of news about the exploding social network phenomenon, not related to the growing number of users for once: Instead a psychologist is suggesting Facebooking makes you smart while Twittering makes you ...READ»

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Facebook Aims for the Heart of Mobile Social Networking: Apps

When I joked everything would soon be wired to a social network the other day I didn't realize how close I was to the mark. Because social net giant Facebook is angling to become the vehicle that lets everything on your smartphone get ...READ»

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Nokia Spins "Lifecasting" App, Forgets It's Really Facebook's Mojo

Nokia's moving fast to catch up with current tech memes: As well as leaping into the smartbook and netbook fray, it's also getting into social net "lifecasting" thanks to a new Ovi app that connects to Facebook. That all sounds ...READ»

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Facebook Testing New Home Page Direct Response Ads; Free Chicken Biscuit, Anyone?

Facebook, in its ever-resourceful quest to balance advertising with its users fickle sense of home page ownership, is testing a new engagement ad that doesn't drive users to a sponsor's Facebook page but rather asks them to complete a ...READ»

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Twitter Won't Do Ads, but Time.Com's Twitter Page Does

Twitter's own future won't contain advertising, but that isn't stopping Time.com from selling its own advertising space on Twitter. Is this one future for social networking ads? Time's going all-out to figure out how to make money ...READ»

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Scale: The Importance of Cafe-Shaped Experiences

What if getting bigger and bigger isn't the way to do business? Instead of bigger, what about the notion of more instances of small and intimate?READ»

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Smartsynch and University of Mississippi Team Up for Tweeting Smart Meters

Last month we predicted that tweeting smart meters wouldn't become popular in the United States. Perhaps we spoke too soon. Smart meter manufacturing company SmartSynch teamed up with the University of Mississippi today to design an ...READ»

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Canada Makes Facebook Rein In Its Freewheeling Privacy Settings

Facebook's just announced it's tweaking its privacy settings--a move to allow its users finer control over what private information is broadcast and shared across its network and to Facebook Apps. It's welcome, and arrives thanks to ...READ»

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Psychology of Technology: The Evolution of Connectivity

Have you ever thought about how far we’ve come in our ability to connect with others and how far we’ll go? I’ve been thinking a lot about connectivity recently and have always found that looking back to where we came from can help us better understand where we are today and, more importantly, where we may be going in the future. Consider the evolution of connectivity. We officially became homo sapiens approximately 200,000 years ago. With the emergence of sophisticated language, we were able to communicate with each other face to face in a way that allowed for the emergence of civilization as we now know it. Of course, this connection was limited to, well, shouting distance, but it was a start. READ»

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Facebook Plans 50% Expansion

Facebook is planning to expand its 1,000-person ranks by 50%, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg in an interview with Bloomberg. The company is using the dismal economic times as a bartering chip, picking up engineers and executives on ...READ»

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Posterous Makes iPhone Photoblogging Ingenious

There are plenty of ways to blog a cat, and nearly all the tools out there work fine. But make no mistake: there's a blogging arms race going on.Arguably the three most advanced contenders--slick, free Web 2.0 tools with ...READ»

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The Gift of Giving Real Gifts on Facebook

You've probably given someone a virtual gift on Facebook before, but as of now, if you gift someone something for their special day through Facebook's handy little Gift Shop interface, you'll get a surprising new option--you can now ...READ»

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If You're Applying for a Job, Censor Your Facebook Page

A new CareerBuilder survey reveals that prospective employers use social networks more than ever to check out job applicants--45% of them--and they use Facebook more than LinkedIn. What's even more interesting is how they're using ...READ»

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Facebook Privacy Suit: Maybe The World's Not So Net-Savvy After All

So the President is pushing to get people online, global Internet usage is skyrocketing unbelievably...but some people really don't get the 'Net. At all. That's the only real conclusion we can draw from a new law suit facing ...READ»

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Huffington Post Gets 'Social News,' but What Does It Mean?

The social networking bandwagon everyone's jumping aboard better get some new seats installed: The Huffington Post has hopped on today, with a "Social News" feature. Apart from the PR-friendly hype of the title, what's it all ...READ»

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Brighter Planet Brings the Social Web to Carbon Footprints

There are hundreds of carbon footprint calculators available on the Internet, but most of them just ask you to input information about your lifestyle in exchange for a footprint rating. If you're lucky, the calculator might offer tips ...READ»

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