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User Backlash Forces Facebook Privacy Tweaks, Again

User Backlash Forces Facebook Privacy Tweaks, Again

Yesterday Facebook launched its attempt to push users into public posts, disguised as a privacy overhaul to safeguard them instead. I called it out for dodgy dealings, and it turns out many users did too. Facebook's changed stuff ...READ»

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Visualizing Facebookers' Comments on Privacy Tweaks: Dislike Not an Option

Oh Facebook, when are you going to learn? When you've got over a third of a billion people using your site to basically fritter the day away, any tweaks are going to stir up your population. What are Facebookers saying about these new ...READ»

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Mark Zuckerberg is 158th Richest American

Forbes released its list of the wealthiest Americans last night. Technology's usual suspects are all present: Gates, Ellison, Allen, Bezos, the Google duo, and so on. But there, at number 158 and tied with Donald Trump and Sumner ...READ»

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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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Young Mark Zuckerberg on Film: "We Ran The Site Originally for $85 a Month"

The documentary Our Time at first sounds like a standard 20-something road trip movie. But it will challenge your stereotypes about Millennials in the end, and includes some excellent interviews--like this one, with a fresh-faced Mark ...READ»

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Facebook's Swank New Offices

The HQ was designed with the help of online committees, and just like on Facebook, writing on the walls is encouraged.READ»

Who Are the CEOs of Hogwarts?

Who Are the CEOs of Hogwarts?

Scrape away all the wizardry, and the Harry Potter films are about a company that unites behind a leader to defeat its foes. Which got us thinking about the real world wizards of finance and technology. In short, who in the business world is equivalent to our heroes and who deserves the title of He Who Must Not Be Named?READ»

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Facebook's Popup Video Ads to Test Site's Ultimate Stickiness

In June, U.S. Web users spent roughly 4.5 hours writing on Facebook walls, flipping through Facebook photos, and stalking total Facebook strangers, according to new data from Nielsen. That's more time than they logged on any other ...READ»

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Facebook's Popup Video Ads Test Newfound Stickiness

In June, U.S. Web users spent roughly 4.5 hours writing on Facebook walls, flipping through Facebook photos, and stalking total Facebook strangers, according to new data from Nielsen. That’s more time than they logged on any ...READ»

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Hobo 3.0: A Convention for the New, New, New Economy!

Don't miss the premier tech-biz-media convention for the new, new, new economy!READ»

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