insidefacebook.com - 3/5/2009
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After Facebook’s press event yesterday announcing public profiles and the real-time home page “stream,” I briefly chatted with Mark Zuckerberg about the future of sharing on Facebook. Essentially, Mark said things are headed toward a hybrid model in which some information ...
newteevee.com - 3/6/2009
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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 ...
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Changing Nature of Virality: Facebook and Twitter
nytimes.com - 3/7/2009
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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 ...
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Digital Domain - When Everyone’s a Friend, Is ...
gigaom.com - 3/5/2009
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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 ...
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With Twitter Envy, Facebook Adds (Near) Real-time Web ...
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When Will Facebook Open Up the Public Timeline?
Inside Facebook —
... starting now and allowing users to make their updates public if they so choose at some point in the (presumably not too distant) future. ...
New Facebook Pages getting developer attention
VentureBeat —
... what Facebook calls “social ads,” one of the new advertising models it is testing out. Also expect status updates and other information from Pages to eventually be sharable with the rest of the web. The company is trying to figure out how to let people share both private information (like party pictures between two people who are friends) and more public information (like a status update from a brand’s Page), as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told Inside Facebook’s Justin Smith recently. That’s a complicated task, but ...
Comscore US Social Networking Metrics for February 2009: Facebook Closing Gap on MySpace, Twitter Exploding
Inside Facebook —
... Facebook’s recent comments that it is planning on opening up the service more and more may accelerate Facebook’s growth in the coming weeks and months. Facebook ...
Facebook Now Testing News Feed Search & Public Timeline Search In Major Revamp
Inside Facebook —
... available for the first time ever, it is still prioritizing communicating with friends above searching the public timeline in this iteration of Facebook search. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Inside Facebook earlier this year that the future of Facebook lies in a hybrid public/private sharing model. ...
Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine to Include Public Facebook Status Updates
Inside Facebook —
... The company has already been moving in this direction. Mark Zuckerberg told us in March that Facebook is pushing more towards a hybrid private-public model for information-sharing on the site, around when the company introduced new features for ...
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