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mashable.com - 3/9/2009
Facebook: Your Photos Aren’t Lost
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Facebook, who is the world’s #1 photo host in addition to its top social network, is assuring members that their photos are safe, after a hard drive failure over the weekend led “10 to 15 percent of already uploaded photos” to render a question mark when viewed. According to Facebook, photos ...
Changing Nature of Virality: Facebook and Twitter
newteevee.com - 3/6/2009
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

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Digital Domain - When Everyone’s a Friend, Is Anything Private?
nytimes.com - 3/7/2009
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 ...

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Another Exec Unfriends Facebook
gawker.com - 3/6/2009
Another Exec Unfriends Facebook
— gawker.com — Facebook is fun to use. But it's not a fun place to work — as confirmed by... the defection of Net Jacobsson , a key executive in Facebook's effort to cash in on your life online . In 2007, Facebook was the hot startup where everyone wanted to ... (more) Another Exec Unfriends Facebook

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Storage Soup — ... Bloggers who aren’t hard-bitten storage guys, meanwhile, had some praise for Facebook’s handling of the issue. “It’s good to know that Facebook maintains backups of all your data for situations like this…” wrote Adam Ostrow at Mashable. ...

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