techcrunch.com - 2/9/2009
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Facebook just turned 5 years old. But a week that should have been filled with reflection and good times was instead marred by a series of breaking news reports detailing sex scandals, phishing, and other malicious activity on the world’s largest social network.
In his blog post ...
law.com - 2/10/2009
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law.com —
SAN FRANCISCO Facebook paid the founders of ConnectU
$65 million to settle lawsuits accusing Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg of stealing the idea for the wildly successful social-networking Web site, according to a law firm's marketing brochure. Lawyers ...
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Quinn Spills Value of Facebook Deal
allfacebook.com - 2/7/2009
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allfacebook.com —
Tonight Facebook has made a number of updates
to the Facebok platform one of which is the
opening of status updates. In order to get Facebook statuses, you no longer need to use a session ID to access statuses. This is a huge update and one that I ...
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Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter
blog.compete.com - 2/9/2009
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blog.compete.com —
With Facebook officially turning five years old recently,
combined with the site surging past MySpace in Monthly
Unique Visitors, it seems like a good time to take a little deeper look at the social networking giants. It’s hard to believe that last ...
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Social Networks: Facebook Takes Over Top Spot, Twitter ...
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Hoping to best Mark Cuban's appearance, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak will be a contestant on the next season of "Dancing With the Stars." [AllThingsD]
Good news, baseball fans. This season you can watch the beads of sweat run down the foreheads of your favorite players from the comfort of your office computer. MLB.com is going hi-def. [New York Times]
Is Facebook really as safe and secure as Mark Zuckerberg claims it is? [Techcrunch]
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