marketingpilgrim.com - 4/24/2009
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Based on a post for the General Counsel for Facebook , Ted Ullyot, the results for the Facebook vote are in and the new rules / terms of service are in. Or are they?
As I read the post my greatest question was did they actually get 30% of their active users to vote so the following statement ...
Odds Of Facebook Governance Vote Counting: Next to Nothing
allfacebook.com 4/19/2009 — When Facebook announced the “Facebook Governance” voting back in February, Mark Zuckerberg hailed it as an “unprecedented” effort to involve users in the development of the terms of service. Almost two months later the voting ...
Facebook governance vote is a homework assignment no one did
latimesblogs.latimes.com 4/24/2009 —
Facebook governance results a few minutes before the voting closed. Credit: Facebook.com
By the time voting closed today at noon Pacific time, only 0.32% of Facebook's users had weighed in on the question of whether the site's lengthy new ...
Facebook site governance vote ends, new governing documents adopted
obsessable.com 4/24/2009 — 75% of those who voted chose the new documents, but voter turnout was surprisingly low despite Facebook's efforts to make sure voting was easy. Facebook will be adopting the new Facebook Principles and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities documents that were drafted in response ...
Facebook Democracy At Work: The First Step
mashable.com 4/24/2009 — Facebook today announced the preliminary results of the site governance vote; an important step in the history of Facebook in which the users were called to vote on the site’s future terms of use . The results aren’t fully processed yet, ...
Facebook Users Vote on How They Want to Be Governed —
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Results of Facebook site governance voting has concluded. And majority of those who responded to Facebook call for votation wanted to be governed by the proposed Governance documents made publicly available by Facebook. Pending audit by an external auditor, the new Facebook Principles and ...
Facebook honors election at 1/100th of quorum —
ZDNet Government
<p>Is Facebook the <a href=”http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/24/facebook_vote_shock/”>Zimbabwe of the Internet</a>? After this year’s terms-and-conditions fiasco, Facebook promised to let users vote on two sets of proposed changes. And this would be ...
Facebook Users Overwhelmingly Vote For New Terms of Use —
AppScout
Facebook's general counsel Ted Ullyot posted the early results of the social networking site's first governance vote on its official blog late last night. The vote had been going on for a week, in response to concerns over language in Facebook's terms of service.
In total, some 600,000 users ...
Facebook Releases Results of Governance Vote —
eWeek - RSS Feeds
The turnout was far under the 30 percent of users Facebook hoped for, but the social networking site said the week-long vote, in which users determined which documents should serve as the foundation for governing the site, was a success. - Social networking behemoth Facebook announced terms of ...
Facebook Blocks Iran With New Terms of Service —
All Facebook
With the new Facebook terms of service ready to be passed, many are practically oblivious to the fact that the Facebook Governance vote ever took place but some of them may become aware once Facebook is no longer available to them. One statement in the latest Facebook terms has a few Iranians ...
Facebook Governance Results: Well Under 1 Million Votes —
All Facebook
Facebook’s Governance vote ends today and it appears as though they will fall short of the 60 million votes they were hoping to attract, attracting around 650,000 votes. Last week I suggested that the odds of the vote working was next to nothing. That doesn’t mean Facebook ...
Facebook TOS Vote To End Today —
WebProNews Feed
People who have been procrastinating should know that they're almost out of time. Later today, the Facebook governance vote will end, and either the new or the old terms of service will become pretty well permanent.
Would-be voters need to sign into Facebook and make a choice before ...
Facebook governance voting ends today —
Betanews
By Angela Gunn, Betanews You've got just a few hours to cast your vote for your preferred documents of Facebook governance. Do you prefer the current Facebook-written terms of use (the ones to which the site rolled back after that disastrous sortie back in February)? Or are you more in tune ...
The Failure of the Facebook Vote —
Fast Company - Technology
Recently Facebook outraged its users by changing its terms of service to say that the company owned all the content on its network. Users freaked out; you joined them in the chants of unfairness. Now Facebook is calling your bluff.
After the uprising, Facebook said it would ...