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50 shades of like
We are losing our faith in TV news as fast as those high-speed chases it’s so happy to show us. At the same time, we’re driving like maniacs on the social-media highway, letting it all hang out with...
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Facebook needs a new CEO
Facebook has now gone through its first trial by fire as a public company, slightly exceeding revenue expectations (with $1.18 billion) but showing a big loss in its first reported quarter ($157...
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Will Twitter’s uncanny luck ever run out?
Editor’s note: This piece was originally published at PandoDaily.com. This past week I heard two rational arguments on the fate of Twitter from two smart investors. One was an argument that it’ll...
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Facebook’s billion: Are you being served?
Facebook has reached an almost unimaginable milestone: 1 billion people are active users. It is hard to get your head around that number, which represents one-seventh of the world’s population (and...
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The Facebook Doctrine
Instagram, the mobile photo sharing app that Facebook bought for about $700 million, has been doing something new over the past few weeks. Up until now, one couldn’t see all of a user’s Instagrams...
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Facebook may yet learn that power does not ensure immortality
Facebook wasted no time acting with impunity by (once again) diluting member privacy protections this week. But it needn’t have hurried. Any semblance of democracy was washed away at noon Pacific Time...
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Facebook’s search has been found
With “Graph Search,” Facebook’s newsearch engine announced Tuesday, the world’s largest social network has finally begun to index a trove of Big Data that’s been piling up for years. Even Facebook...
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Paying the piper for privacy
Three privacy stories caught my attention in the past week: 1. Google is paying a token $7 million fine for sniffing out private information as its roving Google Maps cars gathered images for Street...
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What is Google doing?
A few years ago, web thinker Jeff Jarvis published an homage to the world’s most successful Web search and advertising company titled “What Would Google Do?” These days, the question seems to be,...
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Home is where the phone is
It hasn’t yet been six years since the start of the smartphone revolution and we’ve already become an “always on” culture. At least, that’s the temptation. Those who submit can be called The...
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