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Facebook Is Using You →

By On 06/02/2012 · Leave a Comment

Facebook makes money by selling ad space to companies that want to reach us. Advertisers choose key words or details — like relationship status, location, activities, favorite books and employment — and then Facebook runs the ads for the targeted subset of its 845 million users.

The New York Times is doing the scary thing again. Wondering Why. One thing I know it has become public discourse now. That scares me.

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Don’t Be Evil is not a slogan nor a browser extension →

By On 25/01/2012 · Leave a Comment

Good research there: the browser extension that shows more than the Google+ your world search results:

(…)it comes from Facebook

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Facebook updates app install dialog for user clarity

By On 20/01/2012 · Leave a Comment

Inside Facebook · Facebook updates app install dialog for user clarity.

The standardization of the internet. A trend I missed for 2012.

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Google Responds: No,That’s Not How Facebook Deal Went Down (Oh, And I Say: The Search Paradigm Is Broken) →

By On 14/01/2012 · Leave a Comment

“We want to set the record straight. In 2009, we were negotiating with Facebook over access to its data, as has beenreported.  To claim that the we couldn’t reach an agreement because Google wanted to make private data publicly available is simply untrue.”

Interesting times for social and search. Very much so.

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Schmidt: Google+ Not Favored, Happy To Talk Twitter & Facebook Integration →

By On 11/01/2012 · 1 Comment

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt says Google+ content is not being favored over Twitter and Facebook by Google’s search engine. Rather, those companies can be treated the same if they grant Google the right permissions to access their content.

Very, very smart move

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