venturebeat.com - 1/8/2009
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Facebook has grown to 150 million users this month, more than half of whom use the site every day, according to company chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. Other social networks, like MySpace, Friendster, hi5, Bebo and Orkut, have also become popular around the world over the last decade, and ...
blog.facebook.com - 1/7/2009
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blog.facebook.com —
Today, we reached another milestone: 150 million people
around the world are now actively using Facebook and...
almost half of them are using Facebook every day. This includes people in every continent—even Antarctica.
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A Great Start to 2009
readwriteweb.com - 1/9/2009
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readwriteweb.com —
Last night at the offices of blogging software
company Six Apart, engineers and social media specialists from...
a number of companies large and small met to discuss proposed standards for the future of "activity streams" - the system of displaying ...
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Google, Facebook, MySpace and More Meet to Talk Activity ...
news.cnet.com - 1/9/2009
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news.cnet.com —
(Credit: Burger King) Facebook's developer platform has been
used for a zillion marketing campaigns so far, but...
this one is actually dead-on hilarious. Fast-food chain Burger King has created " Whopper Sacrifice ," a Facebook app that will ...
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Delete 10 Facebook friends, get a free Whopper
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Why Facebook Will Have a Big 2009
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... Facebook knows a lot about its 150 million users — where they live, how old they are, who their friends are, what sort of music, movies, TV, books, food, and activities they like, even what they’re up to right now. As VentureBeat points out, because Facebook emphasized privacy early on — only people you’ve approved as friends get to see your details — most profiles on the site are full of legit, marketable information. ...
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