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Facebook Beacons - say goodbye to Privacy

While it seems to be a clever idea, a quick review reveals that Beacon might turn out to be a privacy hairball for the company. Facebook announced that they will be delivering more targeted ads based on more...
3 Comments  |  Topic: Advertising  |  

Facebook Unveils Ad Strategy - Users Become Marketers

The company's approach to advertising boils down to an attempt at conversational marketing, where users become product promoters and are encouraged to spread the word about things they buy and use among more...
1 Comment  |  Topic: Advertising  |  

Multiply's Big International Following

Multiply has been growing rather quietly internationally. The social media aggregator now has 7 million registered users and 10.5 million monthly unique visitors according to their internal numbers, nearly more...
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Why Are Founders Leaving Social Networks?

Michael Arrington brings up this question with two examples of founders or execs leaving second tier social networks - Jeanine LeFlore, Piczo’s VP of Products and Marketing and Bebo’s co-founder and more...
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Finam Puts $30 Million in Social Network Badoo in Russia

Russian financial group Finam got a 10% stake in Badoo, which is a social networking site with photo and video sharing features. It has 12.7 million registered accounts, mostly in Latin America and Continental more...
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Digg - A social media Petri dish

The social media site startup Digg is actually a social media petri dish where a lot of experimentation is going on to determine the future of this new field. Scott Karp opines that a completely open more...
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Zazzle Launches Social Networking Profile Cards

Quick printing services company Zazzle has come up with a cool idea - to print business cards for your social networking profiles which most of us do have and so one can get the same look and feel as that more...
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BuddyMedia raises money for new social network

Led by Softbank Capital, with participation from European Founders Fund, GreyCroft Partners, and angel investors including Ron Conway, who have put in about $6.5 Million into BuddyMedia which is gearing more...
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Social Network clutter? Try Yoono

Josh Lowensohn writes his review about a new service designed to integrate your social networking stuff: Yoono offers a browser add-on for discovering and sharing Web content is launching several new features more...
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Monster.com's Jeff Taylor Starts Social Networking Site for the Dead

The founder of the most popular job site on the planet Monster.com, Jeff Taylor is still working hard to put come up with his next big idea. He is coming up with a social networking site for the dead. more...
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