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The latest on Facebook’s German insurgency: A contest about who does good deeds on Facebook
venturebeat.com - 10/8/2008
The latest on Facebook’s German insurgency: A contest about who does good deeds on Facebook
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Facebook is so serious about making the world a better place, it launched a contest about that today, in German. The contest “invites people to pay tribute to those who have used Facebook to influence social change and contribute to a more open and connected world,” the company ...
faz-community.faz.net - 10/9/2008
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Our focus is growth, not revenue
— faz-community.faz.net — Mark Zuckerberg, der Vorstandschef von Facebook, über sein Geschäftsmodell, Werbeerlöse, Microsoft, seinen deutschen Wettbewerber StudiVZ, Sheryl Sandberg... und die Möglichkeit für seine Mitarbeiter, ihre Aktien zu verkaufen....( read more ) (more) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Our focus is growth, not ...

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SocialMedia
socialmedia.com - 10/7/2008
SocialMedia
— socialmedia.com — Reaching over 35 million unique users per month 5,000 applications Over 1,000 developers Facebook, bebo, MySpace, Orkut,... Hi5 and Friendster... 7 of the top 10 sites in the world are social. Alexa, May2008... Over 28,000 applications exist within ... (more) SocialMedia

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Zuckerberg: Facebook Will Have A Business Plan In Three Years
alleyinsider.com - 10/9/2008
Zuckerberg: Facebook Will Have A Business Plan In Three Years
— alleyinsider.com — If you've had a nagging suspicion that Mark Zuckerberg really doesn't know how he'll turn Facebook into... a business, wonder no more. You're right. Here he is talking to German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : What every great internet ... (more) Zuckerberg: Facebook Will Have A Business Plan In Three ...

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All Facebook:  Is Germany That Important to Facebook?

Inside Facebook:  Facebook Awards €40,000 to Winners of German Application Contest

Gawker: valleywag:  Mark Zuckerberg learns a political lesson [Facebook]

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Is Germany That Important to Facebook?
All Facebook — ... This morning Venturebeat published a story about a new application being promoted by Facebook. According to Eldon, the application “invites people to pay tribute to those who have used Facebook to influence social change and contribute to a more open and connected world.” What appeared most controversial was that the application was launched in German. ...

Facebook Awards €40,000 to Winners of German Application Contest
Inside Facebook — ... Clearly, Facebook is stepping up its marketing efforts in Germany. Just yesterday, the company launched another promotion around stories of using ...

Mark Zuckerberg learns a political lesson [Facebook]
Gawker: valleywag — ... ! He met a lot of people who are using Facebook to talk to their cousins in Spanish, protest TV crews, and bring back a discontinued candy bar. If that's not making the world a better place, what is? Zuckerberg doesn't mention his major faux pas: Bringing up Facebook users' staging of protests against left-wing guerrillas in Colombia, an achievement he cited in his infamous SXSW keynote interview. As Eric Eldon recently pointed out on VentureBeat, Colombia has right-wing guerrillas, too, with close ties to the U.S.-backed government. They're not as popular in Germany as they are ...

Facebook and World Peace: Really?
ReadWriteWeb — ... As writer Eric Eldon put it a year ago on VentureBeat: "Thing is, right-wing Colombian guerrillas with close ties to the country's U.S.-backed government have also been implicated in numerous terrorist activities. That topic seems to have been covered in much greater detail by European media than their counterparts here in the U.S... If I were Facebook... I'd think hard about using that example." ...

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