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Foursquare founder on Facebook

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Posted March 10, 2010
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Facebook killer sentenced to life for teenager's murder

"Peter Chapman was today sentenced to life imprisonment after he admitted kidnapping, raping and murdering a teenage student he had ensnared using a fake Facebook profile."

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Posted March 8, 2010
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David f. Gallagher Experiments With Facebook's Ad Creator

This produced some quick changes. Among other customized ads, I started getting the surfing- and cooking-themed campaigns shown above. In fact, foodies seem to be a big target for Facebook advertisers. But there were still plenty of junkier ads, like the Oprah one, which would seem to violate Facebook’s policy regarding the need for some connection between the image and the product being advertised. Unless Oprah is in need of debt relief.

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Posted March 4, 2010
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Facebook On Track Towards $1.1 Billion in 2010 [Inside Facebook]

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Posted March 2, 2010
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Stats on Facebook Vs. Google News

"In continuing to look at this trend, Heather Hopkins, an analyst with the traffic analysis company, dug a little bit deeper into the stats and found that there is a distinct difference between where the social network drives its traffic in comparison to Google News.

According to Hopkins, Facebook sends nearly three times as much of its downstream traffic to broadcast media websites as compared to Google News."

 

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Posted March 1, 2010
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Just pulled this from comScore's Data Passport - First Half 2010

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Posted March 1, 2010
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Burson-Marsteller Fortune Global 100 Social Media Study

"The study found that 65 percent of the largest 100 international companies have active accounts on Twitter, 54 percent have a Facebook fan page, 50 percent have a YouTube channel, and one-third (33 percent) have corporate blogs. Only 20 percent of the major international companies are utilizing all four platforms to engage with stakeholders."

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Posted February 23, 2010
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Facebook Rolling Out Redesign [TechCrunch]

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Posted February 4, 2010
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A Facebook Fan Isn't Your Marketing Pincushion [Joel Marchese]

Quality paid media will deliver a person's undivided attention and give marketers the ability to deliver their message using the full attributes of a given medium. If a marketer's main goal is to generate Facebook fans, it should have a program set up for how it will benefit those fans for receiving future marketing messages. Because, just as people filter out "junk email," if a marketer's fan page isn't giving back, then its feeds will end up in the "junk feeds" bin (re: hide all feeds from this source), and the marketer will be left wondering why no one is talking back.

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Posted February 2, 2010
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Facebook COO Interview At TechCrunch

"Half of all registered users still log in to Facebook every day, says Sandberg in the interview. That’s 175 million people. And that doesn’t include Facebook Connect logins, only those people that visit the Facebook website." [Michael Arrington]

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Posted February 1, 2010
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