Barack Obama statue attacked by Facebook critics
AP - 45 minutes agoA statue of President Barack Obama as a boy erected in a Jakarta park has been targeted in a Facebook campaign by thousands who say it should be removed.
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It was a worthy b-day
New York Post - Tue Dec 15, 6:30 am ETNapster and Facebook co-founder Sean Parker turned his 30th birthday into a good cause on Saturday. The tech whiz helped raise more than $60,000 in donations for Malaria No More during a bash he co-hosted at his West Village townhouse. Also at the pa...
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Bit.ly Just Got Fu.kd: Facebook And Google Get Into The Short URL Game
TechCrunch - Mon Dec 14, 3:55 pm ETMoments after we heard reports of Facebook's new URL shortener, Google launched its own service, aptly called goo.gl. At the moment, its only being used for Google Toolbar and Feedburner. Google just announced the new service as a sharing feature of Toolbar that will let you share a web page directly from Toolbar. The shortener is not a stand alone service and is not available for "broader ...
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Link Shortening Mania: Goo.gl, Fb.me and Bit.ly Join Fray
Computerworld - 3 minutes agoPC World - There was a time when TinyURL was all you needed to get control of a monster-sized URL that you wanted to share with friends. Now, Google and Facebook are getting into the link shortening business, while bit.ly has launched a professional product for bloggers and news organizations.
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Facebook's Great Betrayal
Valleywag - Mon Dec 14, 3:13 pm ETFacebook's privacy pullback isn't just outrageous; it's a landmark turning point for the social network. Facebook has blundered before, but the latest changes are far more calculated. The company...
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New version of Nokia Messaging includes Twitter support and improved Facebook integration
Mobile Burn - Mon Dec 14, 10:42 am ETOf course, the big news is that users can now update their status in Twitter, view and reply to tweets, and follow their friends' updates easily. The new version of Messaging has improvements for Facebook, as well.
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Facebook's Zuckerberg Becomes Poster Child for New Privacy Settings
Wired News - Sun Dec 13, 9:14 pm ETFacebook wants users to share more with the world and is pushing them that way with new privacy settings. Founder Mark Zuckerberg seems to be leading the charge with a totally open profile and widely shared candid photos.
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A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing
New York Times - Tue Dec 15, 12:42 am ETA new book is a tribute to a Microsoft researcher, lost at sea in 2007, who argued that computing was transforming science.
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GoWalla Worth Nearly $30 Million After Financing. Time To Make Your Move, Facebook.
TechCrunch - Mon Dec 14, 2:40 pm ETAustin, Texas based mobile social network GoWalla's pre-money valuation in their recent financing was $20 million, we've confirmed from multiple sources. The company raised $8.4 million in that round, making their post-money valuation $28.4 million. That's not bad for a service that launched just months ago and has 50,000 users. Part of GoWalla's valuation is based on their PackRat Facebook ...
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Florida ethics panel urges judges to unfriend lawyers from their Facebook pages
St. Petersburg Times - Mon Dec 14, 10:11 pm ETSuch relationships on social networking sites give a bad impression, an ethics panel rules.
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Friendgiftr Launches Facebook Gift Card App
socalTech.com - Mon Dec 14, 2:18 pm ETHollywood-based Friendgiftr, an angel funded startup developing Facebook applications, said today that it has launched a new Facebook application which allows users to send real gift cards to friends, family, and others. The startup said it is now offering over 120 U.S. merchants through its app, which allows users to send both physical and digital gift cards via the popular Facebook social ...
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Faced with fierce criticism, Facebook will offer new 'friends' privacy policy
New York Daily News - Mon Dec 14, 12:42 am ETAmid fierce criticism from privacy groups and others, Facebook is changing its settings yet again.
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New Facebook privacy system confuses and angers many
Yahoo! Tech Advisors - Mon Dec 14, 1:57 pm ETMonths ago Facebook announced it would be revamping its privacy settings to give users more control over what good friends, mere acquaintances, and outright strangers can see on your profile page. Last week, Facebook finally rolled out those changes... and as with anything Facebook has even done with the site, people are now outraged. Outraged, I say! The new controls are mandatory, and if you ...
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Charity now begins on the Internet
Baltimore Sun - 1 hour 55 minutes agoThough the Salvation Army is still using bell ringers like Mary Little from Hampden, the nonprofit and others like it are trying out social media such as Facebook and Twitter to reach volunteers and givers.
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Bebo founder drops $1 million at charity auction
CNET - 4 minutes agoMichael Birch, who sold his site to AOL for $850 million, announced that he would match all of the proceeds at Monday night's Charity Water benefit up to $1 million.
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Parents of Boy, 7, With Cancer Granted Christmas Wish
Fox News - 5 minutes agoA mother and father's wish for Christmas cards for their son with brain cancer has brought an avalanche of mail in Ohio, thanks to the power of the Internet.
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