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Google Can Take the High Road on Privacy

Meanwhile Google played their hand brilliantly. They unveiled OpenSocial, taking the “open” high ground and a lot of wind out of Facebook’s sails (to mix some metaphors!). And with Facebook aligned more...
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Facebook World Domination Plans - Raising More Money

Prior to taking over the world, what does the Facebook duo have in stock for us? First of all, they’re gonna get more money. Yu, Facebook’s C.F.O., said that the company is preparing to raise an additional more...
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Facebook's Social Ads may be illegal

William McGeveran, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, asserts that the Facebook advertising announcement could be illegal since it violates an age-old privacy law. more...
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Concerns regarding Facebook privacy

There’s been another round of “Facebook is bad because they use our data” postings this weekend. The general argument is that Facebook should provide users the ability to opt-out of data sharing, more...
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ABC News to befriend Facebook users

Following a little later than CNN-Google-YouTube and MySpace, Facebook and ABC News could be teaming up to bring some political luster to your online world by hosting political debates and discussions more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Events and Meetups  |  

Widgets make a big splash

Garageband has burned through $17 Million and is now called iLike. It is now seeing some light at the end of this tunnel with MySpace and Facebook opening up and allowing a flood of widgets to be released more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Web 2.0  |  

College Tonight trying to go after Facebook Users

College Tonight is a new social networking site dedicated to social networking by college students. As the name implies, the primary focus of the site is night life of the college students. more...
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Li Ka-shing invests $60 M in Facebook

Kara Swisher talks about Facebook and its reported worth and reveals that Li Ka-shing, the Chairman of Cheung Kong Holdings Limited and Hutchison Whampoa Limited, has invested $60 Million in the social-networki more...
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Feedheads Reaches 10,000 Active Facebook Users

Feedheads, the Facebook application that adds Google Reader shared items to your profile, and displays the most shared items and feeds in a way Google still hasn't figured out how to duplicate, is growing more...
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LinkedIn and Facebook - Are they on a Collision course?

Mathew explores the latest move by LinkedIn to join the party of platform-openers. They just announced that they too now have a platform for development and the question is now - is it on a collision more...
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