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Facebook Terms of Use: Media Hype or User Panic?
Facebook Terms of Use: Media Hype or User Panic?
Recently, there was quite some media buzz and chatter amongst the bloggers about Facebook’s updated Terms of Use . This led many Facebook users to question their privacy and rights on the website. Was the effect of these concerns far reaching, or was this simply a case of media hysteria? Let’s ...
Changing Nature of Virality: Facebook and Twitter
Changing Nature of Virality: Facebook and Twitter
newteevee.com — After Perez Hilton recorded a single-day high of 13.9 million page views on the day after the Oscars, web research firm Hitwise found that the celeb gossip site’s top traffic source is Facebook. That’s crazy — for nearly as long as ... (more) Changing Nature of Virality: Facebook and Twitter
Digital Domain - When Everyone’s a Friend, Is Anything Private?
Digital Domain - When Everyone’s a Friend, Is Anything Private?
nytimes.com — FACEBOOK has a chief privacy officer, but I doubt that the position will exist 10 years from now. That’s not because Facebook is hell-bent on stripping away privacy protections, but because the popularity of Facebook and other social networking sites ... (more) Digital Domain - When Everyone’s a Friend, Is ...
Facebook announces changes, new homepage
Facebook announces changes, new homepage
obsessable.com — Your homepage will soon feature a live stream of your friends' updates, with filters to let you customize what news is displayed. Facebook announced today the changes it plans on implementing to its site in the coming year, focusing more on sharing information within your friend network, ... (more) Facebook announces changes, new homepage
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Compete: Few Facebook Users Leave During Latest Terms of Service Concerns
Inside Facebook — ... its terms of service a couple of weeks ago, few Facebook users decided to leave Facebook because of the concerns, according to data released by Compete. ...

Roundup: VC departure complications, Facebook ToS issues not stopping growth, and more
VentureBeat — ... Facebook terms of service debate not affecting growth — While a substantial number of Facebook users read the revised terms after the changes were extensively covered by the media last month, and while the number of deactivations increased, Compete finds that overall growth has continued upward. ...

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Google and PRS in deadlock as music videos pulled from YouTubeTechnology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk
YouTube in the UK is to be stripped of its most popular music videos after the site failed to agree a new licencing deal with the Performing Rights Society for Music , the trade body that collects music royalties. YouTube said today that after the expiry of its former deal, PRS had proposed ...