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FACEBOOK   |  5 comments

For the Friendship-Obsessed, Facebook Adds Voice Chat

If Facebook's news feed isn't fast enough for you, there's chat. And if you're the type who finds chat too slow or not intimate enough, now there's voice chat. Enter Vivox, a voice chat application in beta for Facebook. After adding ...READ»

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Viral Loop: Jason Calacanis Q&A From the Top of the Leader Board

The leader board, which ranks the top 20 Viral Loop Facebook app users by value, has a new name at the top: entrepreneur and Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis.READ»

JackTheDonkey.com is growing up nicely

something like this will go out in the first newsletter (to those who signed up for Jack's newsletter...I'm not a fan of spam) you can also read the blog posting here to make 1.1 cents for the charities on Jack: http://www.jackthedonkey.com/JackDonkeyBlog_MTk=.htmlREAD»

Robo.to Bundles Your Outgoing Calls With Video and More. Should We Worry?

Robo.to Bundles Your Outgoing Calls With Video and More—Should We Worry?

Remember that pivotal moment in the horror film When A Stranger Calls, when the babysitter gets the news that "The call is coming from inside the house?" It's a jaw-dropping revelation. If the new app Robo.to has anything to do ...READ»

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FACEBOOK   |  2 comments

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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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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FACEBOOK   |  Comment

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»

Randy Newman wasn’t quite clear enough…

Why? Because I looooooooooooooooooooooooooove LA. Or more specifically, the people you meet just being in LA (when you’re not stuck in traffic).READ»

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Zynga Adds 12 Million Users in Two Weeks, Capping 50% Growth Spurt

Social gaming company Zynga, creator of several popular Facebook games including FarmVille, is growing at a pace that would make even its most productive virtual agrarians jealous, adding 12 million players in the last two weeks. The ...READ»

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FARMVILLE   |  Comment

Why Are We Obsessed With Online Farming?

Zynga and Slashkey have bet the farm on Facebook apps that tap our agrarian instincts. Why do they work?READ»

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MYSPACE   |  Comment

MySpace: A Place for Friends No More

After laying off 30% of its U.S. work force and gutting its overseas operations, MySpace's leadership promised radical change, and it seems that change is finally here. In an effort to reverse declining viewership, boost advertising ...READ»

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CrowdEye Twitter Search Dives Into Over-Crowded Social Search Pool

Developed by Microsoft's former search engineering team leader Ken Moss and his wife Becca, CrowdEye scans through tweets, retweets and twitter links in real time, aggregating posts based on a keyword search and allowing you to categorize, chart and analyze the data in ways that a standard Twitter search can't.READ»

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FACEBOOK   |  Comment

The Failure of the Facebook Vote

Recently Facebook outraged its users by changing its terms of service to say that the company owned all the content on its network. Users freaked out; you joined them in the chants of unfairness. Now Facebook is calling your ...READ»

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Evolution of a Facebook-Killer

Plenty of people have been wondering about which company might come along and dethrone Facebook. What if the answer is so obvious that you wouldn't notice until all the pieces came together?READ»

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The Seven Coolest Things Online This Week

Super-strong artificial muscles and telephony iPods? The future looks brighter--especially if you listen to President Obama's plans, as he laid them out for Jay Leno on Thursday. And with Gmail's new "Undo" feature, even ...READ»

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How Chris Hughes Helped Launch Facebook and the Barack Obama Campaign

The untold story of how Chris Hughes, today only 25 years old, helped create two of the most successful startups in modern history, Facebook and the Barack Obama campaign.READ»

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Facebook: Stop Acting Like a Nation-State

The executives at Facebook may be under a grand delusion: they seem to think that Facebook is a nation. And they're attempting to build it a government. This is, of course, a tremendously stupid idea. Sure, Facebook has ...READ»

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Are Social Network Profiles Putting Us at Risk for Business Discrimination?

Are you losing business opportunities because of a social network profile page? READ»

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ANTI-SOCIAL   |  Comment

7 Anti-Social Facebook Apps

Social networks are about maintaining friendships and fostering new ones, but some of the apps made for them seem bent on doing the opposite. Here are 7 anti-social Facebook apps, and why you might want them anyway.READ»

DELEUZE   |  Comment

Univocidade, Diferença e Distribuição

A univocidade do Ser não exclui a diferença em suas representações. O unívoco é o plano da ação. A diferença está na distribuição de poder numa mesma circunstância de imersão onde acontece uma partilha nômade, ...READ»

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Oodle Brings Its "Weirdo-Filter" to Facebook Marketplace

Classifieds site Oodle announced today that it will re-invent the Facebook Marketplace as a “social” market in which users can buy and sell with friends and community members. The new Oodle-powered classifieds are slated to launch ...READ»

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4CHAN   |  3 comments

How the "Strip-Mall Effect" Could Destroy the Web

Will the next generation of social networks ruin the Web we love?READ»

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Yahoo Floats New Homepage

Yahoo [YHOO] is, by most metrics, the most frequented website on the Internet. Conscious that more and more online activity is shifting into the realm of social networks, blogs, and other what-have-yous, the company is debuting a ...READ»

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Educating The Advertiser

Current social networks have used the Google model of advertiser do-it-yourself media buying options which has lead many to ponder the future or need for sales teams at social networks. However, at Ad:tech, an interactive ...READ»

Blogging: Changing the Face of Publishing, Branding, and People’s Lives

Mediabistro Circus’s session about blogging featured Eric Hellweg, Editorial director for harvardbusiness.org; Noah Shachtman, Contributing editor for the Danger Room Blog (on Wired.com); Anil Dash, Vice President of Six Apart; ...READ»

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