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January 2008
- Widget Mania on the Rise
  
  newser | Forbes | Jan 2, 08 9:26 PM CST
  
  Since Facebook created an open platform for software developers last May, widgets have won the love of consumers, social networking sites, and even more traditional corporate websites, Forbes reports. Facebook users alone have installed the miniscule applications—allowing them to share music or have zombie fights—more than 765 million times. More »
  
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  Google • Facebook • News Corp • widget • market bubble
- Cell Phone Ads Slowed by Privacy Worries
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jan 1, 08 7:50 PM CST
  
  With the mobile Internet and GPS location-based services expanding, marketers and mobile phone companies are anxious to tap into a new level of targeted advertising. But, the AP reports, carriers are proceeding with caution in implementing the ads because they don’t want the perception of a privacy invasion to spook customers. More »
  
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  cell phones • Facebook • advertising • Internet advertising • GPS • Beacon • mobile advertising
December 2007
- New Web Trend Sparks David vs. Goliath 2.0
  
  newser | Wired | Dec 31, 07 4:14 PM CST
  
  Some call it “scraping,” others call it “importing.” Either way, it’s a controversial process pitting independent software developers against the titans of the cyber world: Techies compile, or scrape, loads of data from search engines and social networking sites and pool the data on their own websites, Wired reports. Some companies, relishing the increased traffic, love the service. More »
  
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  Google • Microsoft • Facebook • eBay • Amazon.com • Craigslist • data • spiders
- Facebook Sneaks Up on BlackBerry Users
  
  newser | San Jose Mercury News | Dec 26, 07 5:03 PM CST
  
  BlackBerry owners may have noticed a new icon appearing on their devices in the past week: a link to Facebook. Some T-Mobile smartphones are getting the icons whether or not customers want them. Facebook spokespeople say users can still decide whether to download the software, but to privacy groups the unwanted icons spell intrusion, reports the San Jose Mercury News. More »
  
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  Facebook • online privacy • BlackBerry • icons
- MySpace Battles Facebook Buzz to Stay on Top
  
  newser | USA Today | Dec 21, 07 1:10 PM CST
  
  Facing competition for buzz and advertising from much smaller but much-hyped Facebook, MySpace has big plans for expansion. The free-form social networking site's founders want to transform it into a one-stop portal where users can check email and get news. The site is also unveiling new services, expanding overseas, and planning to allow multiple profiles, reports USA Today . More »
  
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  Facebook • social networking • MySpace • Skype • multiplayer games
- Gay Plays Well for Maverick VC
  
  newser | Valleywag | Dec 20, 07 12:18 PM CST
  
  In Silicon Valley, where "like funds like," Valleywag thinks it's important to note that Peter Thiel, "the smartest VC in the world, is gay." Why mention it? Thiel's Founders Fund, which just raised a $220 million financing round, could reinvent the way entrepreneurs get paid, and Valleywag attributes his contrarianism to the fact that he's a gay man in a VC world filled mostly with straight white guys. More »
  
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  Facebook • venture capital • investments • PayPal • Peter Thiel
- Scrabble Players Flock to Facebook
  
  newser | New York Times | Dec 17, 07 12:21 PM CST
  
  The hottest application on Facebook these days is Scrabulous, based on the Hasbro boardgame. Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla, a young brother duo from Calcutta, developed an online version of Scrabble in 2005. They put it on Facebook in June in the hopes of targeting 0.01% of the website's citizenry, but now it's got over half a million daily users. More »
  
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  Facebook • Scrabulous • Scrabble • board games
- To Thine Own Self Be Googled
  
  newser | Associated Press | Dec 17, 07 5:23 AM CST
  
  More Americans are Googling themselves, friends and dates. A Pew study found that 47% of US adult Internet users have looked up themselves using the search engine, compared with 22% in 2002. The study found 53% Googled neighbors, colleagues, or dates—often checking bankruptcy and divorce proceedings, and other public records. Women are slightly more likely to Google dates than men. More »
  
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  Internet • Google • Facebook • MySpace • Pew Internet and American Life Project
- Striking Writers Turn to Web Biz
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Dec 17, 07 4:18 AM CST
  
  Dozens of striking film and TV writers are creating new companies that would bypass Hollywood studios and present original video entertainment directly on the Internet. Three groups of writers are working on ventures similar to United Artists, the production company created by Charlie Chaplin and other stars who wanted to break from the studio system, the Los Angeles Times reports. More »
  
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  Facebook • YouTube • MySpace • Hollywood writers' strike • Writers Guild of America • film studio • MyDamnChannel.com
- Let Facebook Ring from the Ivory Tower
  
  newser | Washington Post | Dec 16, 07 12:11 PM CST
  
  Move over, preening teenagers: byte-thirsty academics are now frequenting social networking hangouts like Facebook and MySpace. Hoping to snatch a dissertation out of the latest digital craze, plus a side of fame, they’ll all have to line up behind danah boyd (small caps intended), a Berkeley PhD candidate who’s become a “celebrademic” with her insight on social networking and its effects. More »
  
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  Facebook • social networking • MySpace • scholarship • academic research • National Science Foundation
- Being a Tech CEO Means Having to Say You're Sorry
  
  newser | Forbes | Dec 14, 07 6:02 PM CST
  
  Saying "sorry" has become a necessary skill for tech execs, Forbes reports—from AMD's CEO, who apologized yesterday for delaying its latest chip launch, to Facebook's founder, who begged forgiveness after an advertising program violated users' privacy. The frequency of technology leaders' public contrition testifies to the power of the Internet to amplify consumer discontent—and force companies to listen. More »
  
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  Apple • Yahoo • Facebook • Internet advertising • Silicon Valley • CEOs • AMD • public relations • corporate leadership
- Sweet <3, It's Not U, It's Me
  
  newser | Reuters | Dec 14, 07 3:27 PM CST
  
  Emails and text messages are becoming the dumping grounds for a new generation of lovers, with one in seven people saying they've been broken up with digitally. Moreover, survey results out today reveal that while face-to-face showdowns still beat Facebook as the preferred method for breakups, 1% of respondents would use online social networks to part ways, Reuters reports. More »
  
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  Facebook • Britney Spears • social networking • email • Kevin Federline • romance • relationship • text messages
- Bebo Adopts Facebook-Style Ad Platform
  
  newser | GigaOm | Dec 12, 07 5:37 PM CST
  
  Bebo, the most popular social networking site in Britain, announced today that it will launch an application platform modeled on that of Facebook, GigaOm reports. The launch is the result of a collaboration with its US counterpart, so that developers of Facebook apps will be able to port their work to Bebo with minimal effort. More »
  
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  Google • Facebook • Mark Zuckerberg • OpenSocial • Bebo
- LinkedIn Goes 2.0
  
  newser | PC World | Dec 10, 07 2:57 PM CST
  
  LinkedIn will start allowing user-created applications as part of an effort to keep up with social networking competitors like Facebook and MySpace, PC World reports. The professional networking site said today it has redesigned its home page and plans to display relevant BusinessWeek stories on users' profiles, as well as highlighting stories their colleagues are reading. More »
  
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  Facebook • social networking • MySpace • OpenSocial • LinkedIn
- Tracking Shoppers On & Offline
  
  newser | Associated Press | Dec 10, 07 4:00 AM CST
  
  A marketing data company is blending information about consumer habits online - and offline - to create more accurate and detailed information for advertisers. AP reports Acxiom Corp is bringing to the Internet the consumer profiles and 'life-stage' categories for which it is already well known among direct-mail companies and telemarketers, using a new surveillance program called Relevance-X. More »
  
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  Facebook • Internet advertising • DoubleClick
- Facebook CEO Apologizes for Ad System
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Dec 5, 07 5:07 PM CST
  
  Facebook CEO's apologized today for the company's new advertising system and told users they can disable it, the Wall Street Journal reports. The system, which tracks users' web activities, raised a firestorm of complaints over privacy concerns. "We've made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we've made even more with how we've handled them," Mark Zuckerberg wrote on the company's blog. More »
  
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  Facebook • Mark Zuckerberg • Beacon
- iPhone Tops Google Search List
  
  newser | Reuters | Dec 5, 07 12:28 PM CST
  
  The iPhone topped Google’s list of fastest-growing search terms this year, reports Reuters. "iPhone, of course, is a word very few people typed in a search box in 2006,” said a Google rep. “It didn’t exist.” The list was dominated by social networking and celebrity terms. iPhone Webkinz TMZ More »
  
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  list • Google • Apple • Facebook • YouTube • iPhone • MySpace • search engine • Heroes • TMZ • Transformers • Webkinz • Club Penguin
- Tech IPOs Back, But With a Difference
  
  newser | MarketWatch | Dec 5, 07 11:10 AM CST
  
  Tech IPOs are back--but this time around, things are more subdued than in the heady days of the dot-com boom. These days, tech startups wait until they are profitable, or at least cash-flow positive, before making a public debut, MarketWatch reports. The strong performance of VMWare's August IPO has boosted investor confidence in the tech IPO market. More »
  
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  Facebook • credit crisis • IPO • startup • VMWare
- Beacon Does Track Users Who Log Off: Facebook
  
  newser | PC World | Dec 3, 07 8:21 PM CST
  
  Facebook has admitted that its Beacon ad system is tracking users even when they've logged off the site, PC World reports. Even those who opt out of the system that broadcasts activities to friends are being monitored. The company's email announcement reverses earlier denials and will likely stoke criticisms of the system by privacy advocates. More »
  
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  Facebook • online privacy • Beacon • MoveOn.org
- Pioneer Blog Site Popular in Russia Sold
  
  newser | Reuters | Dec 3, 07 3:03 PM CST
  
  A free blog site that pioneered personal web publishing among Russia’s intellectuals has been sold to a pair of entrepreneurs who promise to add cash and expand it globally, Reuters reports. Six Apart said it sold LiveJournal, which claims 14.3 million blog accounts and 20 million visitors a month—in the US, largely among teenage girls—to SUP. Terms were not disclosed. More »
  
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  Facebook • MySpace • blogging • LiveJournal

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