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Do You Own Facebook? Or Does Facebook Own You?
Do You Own Facebook? Or Does Facebook Own You?
Trust is a fragile commodity.
200 Million Strong
200 Million Strong
blog.facebook.com — We will welcome our 200 millionth user to Facebook some time today, and I want to take... this opportunity to describe what this means to us and what we hope it can mean for everyone using Facebook... (more) 200 Million Strong
Facebook wants you to give credit where credit is due
Facebook wants you to give credit where credit is due
venturebeat.com — Facebook is testing out a way for people to show how much they appreciate friends’ status updates,... links and other items on the site — its a new feature called “credits.” The idea is a more advanced form of commenting or ... (more) Facebook wants you to give credit where credit is due
How Many Friends Can You Have?
blog.facebook.com — One of the most common questions we're asked at Facebook is, "How many friends can you have?"... It's an increasingly important question as more people around the world share and connect on Facebook and on the Web overall, but it's also difficult to ... (more) How Many Friends Can You Have?
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Yes, Facebook Users Are Revolting — Next Question?
Valleywag — ... In her cover story, Grigoriadis trots over the familiar ground of Facebook's revolting users: Julius Harper, the fellow who started a group to protest the site's information-grabbing revision to its terms of service; those outraged by its redesign; and her anonymous ...

Yes, Facebook Users Are Revolting — Next Question?
Gawker: valleywag — ... In her cover story, Grigoriadis trots over the familiar ground of Facebook's revolting users: Julius Harper, the fellow who started a group to protest the site's information-grabbing revision to its terms of service; those outraged by its redesign; and her anonymous ...

A new chapter in the theory of messages
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog — ... realtime messaging "will underlie everything about FriendFeed from now on") and Facebook (which also recently rolled out a new "realtime" design for its site). The human benefits are real. The enforced introduction of parsimoniousness into social messaging relieves the pressure of worldly complexity and can provide the sense of well-being that often comes from radical simplification. Vanessa Grigoriadis gives eloquent voice to the benefits of our new cybernetic social system in her cover story on Facebook in the new issue of New York magazine: On Facebook, I didn’t have to ...

Creative Commons Releases Facebook App: Choose a License for Your Photos, Videos, and Status Updates
ReadWriteWeb — ... , users own all the content and information they post on Facebook, but, Facebook's users also grant Facebook a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License")." We are not quite sure how Facebook's own license (which has created its share of controversy in the past) would play together with some of the most restrictive and open Creative Commons licenses. ...

Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network's Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out
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