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New Social Sites Cater to People of a Certain Age

New startups are targeting the baby-boomers and providing niche social networking sites to cater to their needs. MySpace with wrinkles. more...
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10 Best Facebook Apps for Students

Facebook has become a major distraction for university students around the world. Here are some applications you can use to help increase your productivity, and get more things done in the long run - Class more...
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New Reputation Score Follows You Online

TrustPlus is aiming to make your reputation portable - build on one site and take it with you to other sites. more...
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Mahalo, Techmeme and Facebook are going to beat Google?

Mahalo is human powered search engine, the new kid on the search block putting a new twist on search. Techmeme is innovating in news arena while Facebook's social graph may fuel a future social powered more...
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Facebook Announces $10 Million Fund for Application Developers--

Facebook will introduce the FB Fund in conjunction with Founders Fund and Accel Partners, which will offer grants between $25,000 - $250,000 for developers of applications for the Facebook network. more...
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Facebook CEO visits Seattle - likely investment from Microsoft

Facebook is looking for investors. Likely investment size is $500 million most likely from Microsoft in exchange for a 5% stake as per this Forbes article. Google is also rumored to be in the running. more...
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Share option in Zoho’s Facebook App

Small write-up about Zoho's Facebook App on ZOHO's official blog. Zoho now lets you share your documents with your Facebook Friends. more...
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Should designers optimize the web sites for page views…or user experience?

An interesting quote from Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg, when asked if Facebook’s news feed feature, which aggregates disparate profile information into a single view, reduces page views (and more...
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Facebook to let you 'group' friends

It hasn't happened yet, nor is there a timeline for it, but Facebook has stated that it's working on allowing its members to "organize that long list of friends into groups so you can decide more specifically more...
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Facebook - Long Tail Rules

A really interesting post by Tim O'Reilly on the rise of Facebook as the application platform. As per this article, there are currently about 5000 applications for Facebook but 87% of the usage goes to more...
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