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Twitter has taken the time to explain a bit about how its Trending Topics work, following accusations from the Blogosphere that the company was blocking terms like #wikileaks an...

Facebook Adds More Privacy Controls to Mobile

In August, Facebook brought its privacy controls to browser-enabled mobi...

Twitter Should Be Getting More Useful at the Geographical Level

Twitter is making it easier for developers to tap into Places data, which should fuel more interesting functionalities around locations in a lot of apps. In a...

South Korean Regulators Go After Facebook

A person might imagine that South Korean authorities would have better things to worry about right now, what with North Korea on the (maybe literal) warpath. Nonetheless,...

Anti-Domestic Violence Group Joins Facebook Advisory Board

To be clear: there have been no recent headline-making complaints on the subject, and no signs that Facebook's poised to change anything. But it looks like Facebook might...

Facebook Plans Hiring Spree In Ireland

Any member of Facebook's HR department who happens to be based in Ireland is going to have a busy year ahead of him (or her). A new report's indicated that Facebook intend...

The Need for a Flexible Employee Social Media Policy

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The Many Looks Of the MySpace Logo

As if to offer visual proof that it's trying hard to find it's place in the social media universe, MySpace is using several different new logos simultaneously. Just weeks ago th...

Online Holiday Spending Reaches $16 Billion

Online spending for the first 33 days of the November-December 2010 holiday season has reached $16.8 billion, representing a 12 percent increase over the same time period...

Facebook Redesigns the Profile Page

Facebook announced a redesign of user profile pages. Some changes include a new introduction at the top of the page that tells viewers where you’re from, where you went to...

Should Content Providers Stop Allowing Anonymous Comments?

Facebook product design manager Julie Zhuo contributed an op-ed piece to the New York Times, which calls...

Facebook Said To Rent Space On Madison Avenue

Google and Facebook are often mentioned in the same breath these days, and now it seems that Facebook, like Google, may be interested in the New York real estate market. R...

Facebook Proving to Be an Excellent E-Commerce Tool For the Holidays

If you had any question about whether or not Facebook can be effective for e-commerce, you might be interested in new data the company has shared with us regarding the time peri...

Facebook Promotions No Longer Require Approval or $10,000

Facebook has updated its policy on Promotions, Sweepstakes and Contests. It no longer requires written Facebook approval to administer a promotion on Facebook or a minimum media...

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