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  • 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 »

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      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 »

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      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 »

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      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 »

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      Internet  • Facebook  • social networking  • media  • MySpace  • 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

    • Networking Teens Risk Identity Theft

      Independent (UK)  |  Nov 23, 07 6:45 PM CST

      Networking Teens Risk Identity Theft

      (Newser) - Millions of young users of social networking sites are risking identity theft because of information shared online, warns a UK study reported in the Independent today. Britain's privacy watchdog concludes that 4.5 million web users from 14 to 21 years old could be vulnerable to identity fraud, and young users posting personal information on sites also risk damaging educational and business prospects. More »

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      Facebook  • MySpace  • identity theft  • business tech

    • Facebook Fights Anti-Privacy Charges

      CNET  |  Nov 21, 07 11:45 AM CST

      Facebook Fights Anti-Privacy Charges

      (Newser) - Facebook jumped to the defense of its new social advertising program yesterday, under attack by a MoveOn campaign. MoveOn calls the program a “massive privacy breach,” but Facebook says that misrepresents Beacon, which does not make information "public." "Information is shared with a small selection of a user's trusted network of friends, not publicly on the Web or with all Facebook users,"  the company said. More »

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      Facebook  • social networking  • advertising  • online advertising  • Beacon  • MoveOn.org

    • Facebook is Grinch Stealing X-mas: MoveOn

      CNET  |  Nov 20, 07 8:30 PM CST

      Facebook is Grinch Stealing X-mas: MoveOn

      (Newser) - MoveOn.org plans to campaign against Facebook's "Beacon" ads, and do it on the social networking site's own turf, News.com reports. MoveOn promises an ad drive, a protest group, and an online petition over the advertisements—which post information about users' purchases on friends' news feeds. MoveOn calls the ads a “glaring violation of users’ privacy.” More »

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      Facebook  • online privacy  • Beacon  • MoveOn  • online activism

    • Wiki Founder May Take on Facebook

      Wired  |  Nov 17, 07 9:13 AM CST

      Wiki Founder May Take on Facebook

      (Newser) - Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is apparently going after Facebook and Google in the social-networking arena, Wired reports. Wales showed slides of his upcoming project during a speech in South Africa, and a tech blogger on hand described it as a "search/social networking hybrid" that incorporates elements of both internet powerhouses. More »

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      Google  • Facebook  • South Africa  • Wikipedia  • open source  • Jimmy Wales  • Wikia

    • Techno Savvy Teens Turn Backs on Email

      Slate  |  Nov 15, 07 4:01 PM CST

      Techno Savvy Teens Turn Backs on Email

      (Newser) - If snail mail is going the way of the dodo, then it looks like, among teenagers, email is going the way of, well, the snail: half of all teens prefer instant messaging to old-fashioned emails; and while overall use increased six percent last year, e-missives among the "Facebook generation" dropped by eight percent, Slate reports. More »

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      Facebook  • MySpace  • teenagers  • email  • Instant Messenger

    • Inside the 'PayPal Mafia'

      CNN  |  Nov 15, 07 4:55 AM CST

      Inside the 'PayPal Mafia'

      (Newser) - They may be the most brilliantly successful—or luckiest—or both—small group of entrepreneurs in history: PayPal alumni who, like founders Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, left the company to create $30 billion worth of innovation: YouTube, Facebook, Slide, Yelp, Digg, investment firms, philanthropies, solar-power companies, an electric car maker and a Mars colonization plan. Fortune Magazine infiltrates the "PayPal Mafia" for clues to their success. More »

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      Facebook  • YouTube  • eBay  • Silicon Valley  • PayPal  • Peter Thiel

    • New VC Fund Wants Only Facebook Apps

      MarketWatch  |  Nov 14, 07 12:26 PM CST

      New VC Fund Wants Only Facebook Apps

      (Newser) - Venture capitalist Lee Lorenzen is so enamored of Facebook that he started an investment fund just to finance developers creating applications for the social network site. Not only is Lorenzen investing in a month-and-a-half-old industry, last month at a conference he said Facebook might be worth $100 billion, more than six times the $15 billion valuation that came with Microsoft's purchase of a 1.6% stake. More »

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