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arstechnica.com - 3/9/2009
GOP's top techie calls it quits
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In the Republican Party's ongoing struggle to build an online political machine to rival the formidable new media operation fielded by Barack Obama in 2008, many conservatives pinned their hopes on Cyrus Krohn , the 38-year-old alumnus of Microsoft and Yahoo who was heading up the ...
Try before you buy? Zuckerberg has a public Twitter account
venturebeat.com - 3/7/2009
Try before you buy? Zuckerberg has a public Twitter account
— venturebeat.com — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has been using the microblogging service he’s been trying to buy –... Twitter — since last May . But he’s kept his account on the site ( @zuck ) private and basically unused. Then he ... (more) Try before you buy? Zuckerberg has a public Twitter account

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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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gigaom.com - 3/5/2009
With Twitter Envy, Facebook Adds (Near) Real-time Web Capabilities [GigaOM]
— gigaom.com — Facebook today announced several (and somewhat big) changes to their homepage/newsfeed, as well as the removal of... most distinctions between public pages and profiles. These changes are an attempt to take on Twitter, which Facebook failed to acquire ... (more) With Twitter Envy, Facebook Adds (Near) Real-time Web ...

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