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“Facing There” - A Virtual World Threat to Facebook?

All Facebook |  September 5th, 2008 | Email this
There.com – A Virtual World’s App Strategy for Facebook and Open Social September 4th, 2008 – Los Angeles All Facebook sat down with Michael Wilson, CEO of There.com at the Virtual Worlds Expo in Los Angeles. Michael is a tech savvy visionary who was the 4th employee at eBay and [...]
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The Killer Facebook Application Arrives and it Ain’t Pretty

All Facebook |  September 5th, 2008 | Email this
According to IDG News Serivce, "A team of researchers have built a malicious Facebook" application. We've heard this before it and now we'll here it again. Facebook applications can be used to "dupe large numbers of users into downloading a seemingly harmless application that actually performs a clandestine attack that [...]
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Almost Half of American Concerned About Job Security, According to CNBC LinkedIn Poll

CNBC |  September 5th, 2008 | Email this
Almost half of American workers are concerned about their personal job security, according to a CNBC LinkedIn poll conducted this week prior to today's announcement from the Labor Department that the unemployment rate jumped to 6.1% in August, its highest level in five years. Read More Permalink[...]
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Weekend Video: EconMusic Speaker Billy Bragg: The Great Leap Forwards

PaidContent.org |  September 5th, 2008 | Email this
Did we mention that Billy Bragg is speaking at EconMusic, our London conference examining the digital music business on September 23? Billy has previously taken on MySpace for its policy on artist royalties and Bebo for building a fortune off musicians' work. At EconMusic, Billy joins Last.fm, Mog.com and others [...]
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Social Net Ad Targeter Lookery Secures $2.25M Funding

PaidContent.org |  September 5th, 2008 | Email this
Lookery, a company that trolls demographic data on social net users and sells it to ad networks, has raised $2.25 million, Venturebeat reports. It says Lookery has already raised $1 million in angel funding. Since initially starting as banner ad network for third party apps on sites like Facebook and [...]
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Andreesen on Chrome, Obama, and Investing in Start-ups

Portfolio |  September 5th, 2008 | Email this
Blaise Zerega wishes Chrome were available for the Mac. According to Marc Andreesen, Google's Chrome browser is " an extraordinary event and an extraordinary product." And because it is so fast -- "10, 20, 30 times faster than IE and significantly faster than Firefox," Chrome wil force other web browsers [...]
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Facebook’s Mysterious New Feature

All Facebook |  September 5th, 2008 | Email this
Last night Facebook announced that they are going to release a new feature that developers can leverage when they roll out the new design to everybody. The timeframe for the rollout is most likely about a week but no exact dates were provided. The real question on everybody's mind? What [...]
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37 Signals: Charge for your products, Dummy!

The Long Tail |  September 5th, 2008 | Email this
[File under respected opposition] David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried’s business partner at 37signals, begs to differ with the notion that Web companies shouldn't charge for their products. In a very entertaining speech (video below), he makes his case: Forget using free to go mass and hope you'll become Facebook (or [...]
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Social News Fracas::Digg Puts Focus on Politics, Bringing Charges of Liberal Bias

MediaShift |  September 5th, 2008 | Email this
Last week, Digg CEO Jay Adelson sat in a crowded room in Denver holding a stack of papers while facing a camera and trying to project his voice over the cacophony around him. Next to him sat a tired-looking U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who had taken a [...]
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Facebook is One of the Fastest Growing Search Engines

All Facebook |  September 4th, 2008 | Email this
This article has been republished from the Social Times. According to this July’s comscore data the fastest growing locations for search are Facebook and MySpace. MySpace had 539 million searches and Facebook had 173 million. My guess is that these searches are only domestic searches which would account for the [...]
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Judge tentatively refuses to dismiss Internet case

SF Chronicle |  September 4th, 2008 | Email this
A federal judge tentatively rejected two motions on Thursday to dismiss charges against a woman in a MySpace hoax that allegedly led to a 13-year-old girl's suicide. U.S. District Judge George H. Wu said during a hearing that he intends to take more time to[...]
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YouTube Continues to Conquer in Online Video

Seeking Alpha |  September 4th, 2008 | Email this
July is named for Julius Ceaser, and like that Roman Emperor, YouTube “saw and conquered” the world of online video again a month ago. The undisputed leader of online video claimed 49% share of video viewing visits, up 1.3 percentage points versus June and 8.1 versus a year earlier. July [...]
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Facebook Tests New Jersey Safety Icon

All Facebook |  September 4th, 2008 | Email this
Facebook has agreed to a test with the New Jersey Attorney General's Office in which over "1.5 million randomly-selected page impressions over the next six months" will view a larger abuse report link. I have yet to find an icon for this link but it's clear that Facebook is willing [...]
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Internet Bandwidth Not an Endangered Beast, After All

Portfolio |  September 4th, 2008 | Email this
Pay no attention to rumors that the internet is getting full: the internet can eat 50 eggs. In fact, over the last 12 months, international net bandwidth in backbone grew 62 percent, while internet traffic grew only 53 percent and filled only 43 percent of the tubes' capacity at peak [...]
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Meetup Says 'Unplug Your Friends'

Adrants |  September 4th, 2008 | Email this
So those of us who live our lives online with a collection of Twitter, Facebook, Pownce, Flickr, Second Life and Linked In accounts, this new Unplug Your Friends effort from Meetup says we need to overcome out addition to the screen and rejoin the real world.[...]
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Don’t Get Blocked for Being Too Social on Facebook!

All Facebook |  September 4th, 2008 | Email this
Hey you! Don't let me catch you adding too many friends or messaging too many users or you'll wind up getting blocked! You may have seen it yourself, a warning dialog box which pops up and alerts you that your activity is of a rate similar to someone that is [...]
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Senior Product Manager, Mail at Fox Entertainment Group (Seattle, WA) (Job)

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Requisition # : FIM10693 Job Title : Senior Product Manager, Mail Job Category : New Media Company : Fox Interactive Media Division : MySpace State : Washington City : Seattle[...]
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Senior Software Engineer, Jobs at Linkedin (San Francisco, CA) (Job)

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Are you a top notch java/J2EE Senior Software Engineer that wants to build world-class tools designed to change the way business is done? If so, please read on !! LinkedIn is an[...]
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Senior Accounting/Finance Recruiter - vcfo - Seattle, WA (Job)

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relationships with accounting/finance professionals... Qualifications: Extensive contacts with accounting/finance professionals in the Seattle market Experience... (From LinkedIn)[...]
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Vice President, Sales (Corporate Solutions) at Linkedin (San Francisco, CA) (Job)

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Vice President, Sales (Corporate Solutions) Can you build a world-class sales team? Do you have the ability and desire to take a talented, small team to the next level? Does the[...]
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