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  • December 2007

    • Striking Writers Turn to Web Biz

      Los Angeles Times  |  Dec 17, 07 4:18 AM CST

      Striking Writers Turn to Web Biz

      (Newser) - 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 »

    • Let Facebook Ring from the Ivory Tower

      Washington Post  |  Dec 16, 07 12:11 PM CST

      Let Facebook Ring from the Ivory Tower

      (Newser) - 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 »

    • Being a Tech CEO Means Having to Say You're Sorry

      Forbes  |  Dec 14, 07 6:02 PM CST

      Being a Tech CEO Means Having to Say You're Sorry

      (Newser) - 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

      Reuters  |  Dec 14, 07 3:27 PM CST

      Sweet &lt;3, It's Not U, It's Me

      (Newser) - 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

      GigaOm  |  Dec 12, 07 5:37 PM CST

      Bebo Adopts Facebook-Style Ad Platform

      (Newser) - 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 »

      Tags

      Google  • Facebook  • Mark Zuckerberg  • OpenSocial  • Bebo

    • LinkedIn Goes 2.0

      PC World  |  Dec 10, 07 2:57 PM CST

      LinkedIn Goes 2.0

      (Newser) - 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

      Associated Press  |  Dec 10, 07 4:00 AM CST

      Tracking Shoppers On &amp; Offline

      (Newser) - 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 »

      Tags

      Facebook  • Internet advertising  • DoubleClick

    • Facebook CEO Apologizes for Ad System

      Wall Street Journal  |  Dec 5, 07 5:07 PM CST

      Facebook CEO Apologizes for Ad System

      (Newser) - 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

      Reuters  |  Dec 5, 07 12:28 PM CST

      iPhone Tops Google Search List

      (Newser) - 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

      MarketWatch  |  Dec 5, 07 11:10 AM CST

      Tech IPOs Back, But With a Difference

      (Newser) - 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 »

      Tags

      Facebook  • credit crisis  • IPO  • startup  • VMWare

    • Beacon Does Track Users Who Log Off: Facebook

      PC World  |  Dec 3, 07 8:21 PM CST

      Beacon Does Track Users Who Log Off: Facebook

      (Newser) - 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 »

      Tags

      Facebook  • online privacy  • Beacon  • MoveOn.org

    • Pioneer Blog Site Popular in Russia Sold

      Reuters  |  Dec 3, 07 3:03 PM CST

      Pioneer Blog Site Popular in Russia Sold

      (Newser) - 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 »

      Tags

      Facebook  • MySpace  • blogging  • LiveJournal

    • Facebook Court Defeat May Presage a Fall

      All Things Digital  |  Dec 2, 07 1:38 PM CST

      Facebook Court Defeat May Presage a Fall

      (Newser) - Facebook has been handed a defeat in its attempts to censor the independent Harvard alumni magazine 02138 , which published confidential court documents relating to founder Mark Zuckerberg's earlier work for a rival site. That's a good thing, says Kara Swisher of the Wall Street Journal , for whom the attempted injunction was "essentially a legal temper tantrum." More »

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      Facebook  • Harvard  • Mark Zuckerberg  • First Amendment  • ConnectU  • Cameron Winklevoss  • Tyler Winklevoss  • Divya Narendra

  • November 2007

    • $$$ Thrown at Buzz Drive Facebook's Beacon Plans

      Ars Technica  |  Nov 30, 07 11:42 AM CST

      $$$ Thrown at Buzz Drive Facebook's Beacon Plans

      (Newser) - Facebook's efforts to fix its Beacon system show that talk isn't cheap, as marketers increasingly are finding it’s a great way to spread the word about their product. Word-of-mouth advertising has taken off, with nearly $981 million being spent on campaigns last year, a 36% increase from 2005, reports Ars Technica. Companies are now integrating WoM into every campaign. More »

      Tags

      Facebook  • social networking  • advertising  • Beacon  • buzz

    • Facebook Backs Off Beacon

      Washington Post  |  Nov 30, 07 6:36 AM CST

      Facebook Backs Off Beacon

      (Newser) - Facebook has watered down its unpopular Beacon ad platform, which "shared" information about users' online shopping habits with everyone in their Facebook network—without their permission. Now, instead of making users opt out every time they make a purchase if they don't want it to be broadcast, Facebook will only broadcast the transaction if user click "ok."  More »

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      Facebook  • social networking  • advertising  • online advertising  • Mark Zuckerberg  • Beacon

    • Your Log-in Please, Sir?

      Wall Street Journal  |  Nov 29, 07 10:49 PM CST

      Your Log-in Please, Sir?

      (Newser) - The super-rich are joining the social networking craze, but they're certainly not going to mix with the masses on MySpace. Exclusive sites for millionaires using the same membership criteria as snooty country clubs are appearing on the Web, reports the Wall Street Journal . Invitation-only site aSmallWorld.net has proven popular—some say too popular.      More »

      Tags

      Internet  • Facebook  • social networking  • MySpace  • ultra rich

    • Backlash Forces Facebook to Retool Beacon

      BusinessWeek  |  Nov 29, 07 7:54 AM CST

      Backlash Forces Facebook to Retool Beacon

      (Newser) - Facebook execs are pondering changes to the unpopular Beacon advertising platform after massively negative feedback, reports Business Week, and an announcement on "evolving" it could come as soon as today. Users are threatening mutiny over the tool, less than a month old, that tells their friends all about their purchases from other sites—a service many view as an invasion of privacy. More »

      Tags

      Facebook  • social networking  • Mark Zuckerberg  • Beacon

    • Newspapers Look to Make Connections

      Reuters  |  Nov 28, 07 10:26 AM CST

      Newspapers Look to Make Connections

      (Newser) - Newspapers readers at an increasing pace are turning to Pluck, a media syndication company, to link their sites to social networks, like MySpace and Facebook, giving them access to 165 million users, Reuters reports. Pluck will use the Facebook programming interface and Google's OpenSocial system to share information between its customer's sites and the most prominent social nets. More »

      Tags

      Internet  • Facebook  • social networking  • MySpace  • media  • newspaper  • online newspapers

    • Privacy, Shmivacy: Facebook Is Doomed

      InformationWeek  |  Nov 27, 07 10:05 AM CST

      Privacy, Shmivacy: Facebook Is Doomed

      (Newser) - Aggressive new advertising tactics make Facebook look more evil by the day, but don’t worry, InformationWeek columnist Cory Doctorow writes, because it’s doomed anyway. Sure social networks are “pure crack” for some, but sooner or later everyone gets friended by someone they’d rather avoid, and eventually that awkwardness is too much to bear. More »

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      Facebook  • social networking  • MySpace

    • Facebook Feud Heats Up

      02138  |  Nov 27, 07 8:59 AM CST

      Facebook Feud Heats Up

      (Newser) - Three former Harvard students who are suing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for stealing their idea are finally about to get their day in court, reports the indy Harvard alumni magazine 02138 . Forensic data experts are searching  Zuckerberg’s computer hard drives, searching for source code, which the company claims is lost, that would confirm or deny intellectual property theft. More »

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      Internet  • Facebook  • social networking  • Harvard  • Mark Zuckerberg

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