Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Social Media’s Expanding Role in College Admissions by Elizabeth Schiffman, Politics Daily http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/07/social-medias-expanding-role-in-college-admissions/ Facebook And Social Game Companies: The Honeymoon’s Over by Oliver Chiang, Forbes http://blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2010/05/07/facebook-and-social-game-companies-the-honeymoons-over/ Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative by Ryan Singel, Wired http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/facebook-rogue/ Teenage Insults, Scrawled on Web, [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week (slightly late edition). Facebook’s Open Graph Personalizes the Web by Samuel Axon, Mashable http://mashable.com/2010/04/21/facebook-open-graph/ SCARY: Blippy Publishes User Credit Card Numbers by Nicholas Carlson, Business Insider/SAI http://www.businessinsider.com/scary-blippy-publishes-user-credit-card-numbers-2010-4 Nielsen: Facebook’s Ads Work Pretty Well by Jack Neff, Advertising Age http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=143381 Boxee, Roku Announcing Deals for Streaming [...]
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 [...]
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