Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Finding a Kidney Donor on Facebook by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/04/08/finding-a-kidney-donor-on-facebook/ Yahoo Considers Buying Foursquare For ~$100 Million by Nicholas Carlson, Silicon Alley Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-considers-buying-foursquare-for-100-million-2010-4 FarmVille user runs up £900 debt by Jill Insley, The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/apr/07/farmville-user-debt-facebook On foursquare, cheating, and claiming mayorships from your [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. The Surreal World of Chatroulette by Nick Bilton, NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/weekinreview/21bilton.html Facebook, PayPal partner on advertising, virtual goods payments by Kim-Mai Cutler, VentureBeat http://venturebeat.com/2010/02/18/facebook-paypal/ Dear SNL: Facebook Will Force You to Heart Betty White by Kara Swisher, All Things Digital/WSJ http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100218/dear-snl-facebook-will-force-you-to-heart-betty-white/ What Kevin Smith means [...]
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