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paidContent Advertising Video: Everson: No Facebook Mobile Ads For Now

Sep 29, 2011 7:52 PM

Facebook has had a lot of scrutiny over how it uses information about you to market to you—something that has only been heightened the introduction of “frictionless” sharing launched at this year’s f8 developer conference. Well, get ready for more. Carolyn Everson, Facebook’s global VP of marketing solutions, said at…

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With Update, Facebook Is Aiming To Be More Social

Sep 21, 2011 2:31 PM

Mark Zuckerberg must have something big up his sleeve for Thursday’s f8. Facebook on Tuesday night unveiled the third – and biggest – update to the social network in 10 days, with a real-time “ticker” that you might have read about in the Guardian on Monday.

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Posted In: Social Media, Community, Companies, Facebook

Instamedia Raises $4 Million From Times Of India Owner

Sep 10, 2010 1:50 PM

Instamedia, which is best known for its Instablogs citizen journalism platform, has raised $4 million in a first round of funding from Times of India-owner Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. The Instablogs site lets anybody submit an original article a la NowPublic or link to an existing news story anywhere…

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Posted In: Advertising, Local, Media & Publishing, Online News, Social Media, Community, Countries, Europe, Asia, India, bccl, instamedia

Following Rivals, Gmail Will Add Status Updates

Feb 8, 2010 2:19 PM

Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which shook up the e-mail industry when it integrated chat with e-mail, is now trying to catch up to its rivals by letting Gmail users share status updates. The WSJ reports that Google will soon add a “new module that will allow Gmail users to view a…

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Posted In: Social Media, Community, Nanopublishing, Technologies / Formats, E-Mail, Companies, Google

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Building A Social Network In A Facebook And Twitter World

Feb 2, 2010 12:13 PM

Geoff Cook is the CEO of myYearbook, a social network built around meeting new people. He also founded EssayEdge and ResumeEdge and sold them to The Thomson Corporation. You can’t go an entire day without encountering Facebook and Twitter – even if you don’t have an account. Whether you ride…

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Posted In: Features, Guest Voices, Social Media, Community, Companies, Facebook, News Corp., MySpace

Yahoo Shuts Down SpotM Social Network

Aug 31, 2009 5:30 PM

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is shutting down SpotM, the social networking service it began testing in India a year ago. Among its features: Users could keep certain friends secret from others and also correspond via text message without revealing their phone numbers. On the SpotM website, Yahoo says it was “experimenting”…

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Posted In: Social Media, Community, Companies, Yahoo

Facebook Buys Sharing Service FriendFeed For Reported $50 Million

Aug 10, 2009 3:25 PM

Updated: Facebook has purchased social sharing service FriendFeed—in a deal that should give it both additional technology and engineers to beef up its product. Financial terms of the deal were not released, although the WSJ puts the price at nearly $50 million, including $15 million in cash, with the remainder…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, Community, Nanopublishing, News Sharing, Companies, Facebook

Interview: Joanna Shields, President, AOL People Networks: Audience First, Profit Later

Feb 23, 2009 10:26 PM

A few weeks after AOL (NYSE: TWX) denied it would hastily offload its $850 million Bebo acquisition, the social network is trumpeting a whole roster of new products offered not just through Bebo, but through AOL itself, AIM, ICQ and AOL’s mobile products, each of which is harmonizing user profiles.…

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Posted In: Social Media, Community, Companies, AOL, Time Warner, bebo, joanna shields

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