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Check your Facebook privacy settings. Now! - msnbc.com

shiwani — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:21:29 GMT

Hm, not very reassuring...

Quoted: If Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg can't figure out his social networking site's privacy settings after they were ripped open earlier this month, what hope is there for the rest of us?

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"5 Star Wars Status Updates" by Brian Murphy on CollegeHumor

freshmaker13 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:42:18 GMT

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Building PhotoKast: Creating an iPhone app in one month - Home & Garden, How-To Guides & DIY, and software

Tosh — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:03:13 GMT

Quoted: In the spirit of Guy Kawasaki's Truemors experiment, we challenged ourselves to create a social networking iPhone app - from concept to development to distribution - in 30 days. This includes coding the servers, clients, spatial implementation (PhotoKast is an LBS app), etc. This document is a combination of what we have learned over the last four years in mobile development, and how that was applied to the making of PhotoKast.

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Seven Lies We Tell Ourselves About Facebook | Newsweek Culture | Newsweek.com

ms.kruse — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:11:21 GMT

The dark underbelly of why people use Facebook ...

Quoted: Seven lies we tell ourselves about social networking.

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First Guns N’ Roses Album In 17 Years Debuts Tonight On MySpace Music

mohit — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:35:51 GMT

Quoted: Chinese Democracy, the first new Guns N’ Roses album since 1991, debuts tonight at 9 PM PST exclusively on MySpace Music, where fans can listen to it for free.

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Sweeping Changes At Live.com: It’s A Social Network!

mohit — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:06:16 GMT

Microsoft has added newsfeeds, social graphs, etc. to Live.

Quoted: Microsoft's Live.com portal will change significantly this evening. No longer will it be a simple search engine with a few other services bolted ...

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Facebook May Be Growing Too Fast. And Hitting The Capital Markets Again.

mohit — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:49:44 GMT

I am curious how the Facebook's costs & revenues compare to those of LinkedIn. LinkedIn makes money both from advertising and innovative premium services (that they have identified by segmenting and studying their various user segments).

Quoted: It costs a couple of hundred million dollars a year just to keep the lights on at Facebook. But the real problem is keeping up with growth, particularly storage needs. Add another $100 million or more per year for capital expenditures, and you’ve got a company that’s doing exactly the opposite of printing money.

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JustSayHi (Mingle2) - Free Online Dating Service & Dating Site

manbitdog — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:08:13 GMT

Dating site plus quizzes such as What's My Blog Rated? The Geek Quiz, Could You Pass 8th Grade Science? The Zombie Survival Quiz

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Taking social networks abroad - Why MySpace and Facebook are failing in Japan

mohit — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:57:23 GMT

Quoted: Sized at an estimated $5.6 billion in 2007, Japan boasts one of the biggest online advertising markets in the world – a huge ...

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Corporate Social Networks Are A Waste of Money, Study Finds - ReadWriteWeb

vanessafox — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:09:58 GMT

Quoted: How would you feel if you spent more than $1 million throwing a party and less than 100 or even 1,000 people showed up? That sinking feeling is ...

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