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Facebook Announces New Privacy Features

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Social Media Following weeks of debate over Facebook and privacy, the company is announcing new features to address the criticism that has emerged since the launch of the Open Graph and Instant Personalization.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg — who penned an op-ed in The Washington Post on Sunday promising new privacy options — is doing the presenting at a live event at the company’s headquarters.

After opening his presentation with a brief history of how Facebook and its privacy features have evolved, Zuckerberg described…

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BP Hedges, Then Decides to Allow ‘Top Kill’ Live Feed

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Social Media While many of us were focused on the Facebook privacy saga, an ongoing debate about access and transparency in regards to the much more critical problem of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill was taking place.…

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Ellen Signs YouTube Sensation Greyson Chance to New Record Label

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Entertainment On her talk show today, Ellen Degeneres announced that she is launching her own record label, eleveneleven, and that 12-year-old YouTube sensation Greyson Chance will be the first artist on the label.

Chance became famous after posting a middle…

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5 Creative Uses for Crowdsourcing

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Social Media When Jeff Howe coined the term “crowdsourcing” in a 2006 Wired article his examples were mainly “labor markets for specialized talents,” like iStockphoto, iFilm, and InnoCentive. But the business model of outsourcing to the…

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Are Location-Based Services All Hype?

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Mobile Chris Treadaway is founder and CEO of Lasso, a hyper-local advertising platform for media outlets and small businesses. He is also the author of the book Facebook Marketing: An Hour a Day. He blogs at treadaway.typepad.com.

It…

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Apple Passes Microsoft as Most Valuable Tech Company

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Business Apple has just surpassed Microsoft in market capitalization and is now second only to Exxon Mobil among U.S. companies.

The data is changing second by second. Apple and Microsoft have switched back and forth a…

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Your Phone Could Be the Key to Your Next Hotel Room

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Mobile Would you be interested in using your phone as a hotel room key? If trials at two Holiday Inn locations in Chicago and Houston go well, it could become a standard option before too long.

USA Today reports…

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Mashable’s Weekly Job Listings in Design and Marketing

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If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all of our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired.…

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Mark Zuckerberg: We Don’t Know What We’re Doing with Location Yet

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Social Media While Mark Zuckerberg may have a plan for simplifying Facebook’s privacy controls, apparently the social networking site has still not decided how it’s going to implement location-based features.

During a Q&A session on Facebook’s privacy controls today, CEO Mark…

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Majority of Adults Now Google Themselves [STUDY]

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Social Media Online users are taking a more active interest in reputation management, a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found.

Findings suggest that users increasingly change privacy settings, delete comments and untag themselves in photos,…

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How Facebook’s New Privacy Controls Work

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Social Media Facebook’s privacy settings and users’ concerns have been debated and analyzed ad nauseum over the past several weeks. With today’s announcement, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company hope to put the talk — and the fear and mistrust — to rest.…

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Facebook Acquires Private Content-Sharing Startup Sharegrove

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Social Media Facebook added another acquisition to its belt today: Sharegrove, a small service that provides private online spaces where family and close friends can share content in real-time.

Sharegrove uses Facebook Connect to knit together a cross between e-mail, group chat…

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“Sex and the City 2″: The 60-Second Version [VIDEO]

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Are you being dragged (or doing the dragging) to see Sex and the City 2 this weekend? If so, the people at Landline TV and Bablegum have put together a 60-second summary of what you can…

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Where in the World are iPhone and Android Devices? [STATS]

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Mobile Mobile advertising network AdMob has released its mobile metrics report for April 2010, which takes a closer look at the geographic distribution of unique iPhone and Android devices. The report also looks at the ratio…

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5 Ways to Monetize the Future of News Media

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Business This series is supported by The Poynter Institute’s Mobile Media blog – your guide to the intersection of mobile and media. Sign up to receive the blog in newsletter format and be entered into a drawing to win an iPad…

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10 Great Websites to Buy Handmade Goods

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Tech Back in 2005, Etsy changed the online market for small-scale artisans, offering a new place on the web to showcase and sell handcrafted goods, with more upmarket and boutique-style options than eBay.

Fast forward to 2010, and…

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Domino’s UK Rewards Foursquare Mayors with Free Pizza

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Social Media Domino’s UK is starting a nationwide Foursquare promotion that rewards mayors with free pizza once a week, a deal similar to the one Starbucks announced last week. Those who merely check in on Foursquare will receive a free…

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“FarmVille” and “Mafia Wars” Coming to Yahoo

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Business Fresh off a deal that will keep FarmVille, Mafia Wars and other popular Zynga titles on Facebook for at least the next five years, the company has inked a partnership with Yahoo to bring its social games to the…

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