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Zuck’s facts about Facebook

Sherrilynne Starkie

Last week, the Wall Street Journal , arguably one of the highest profile news organizations in the world, published an article by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and not before time! After almost a year of bad press, multiple scandals and falling share prices, it’s well past time for a Facebook ‘Mea Culpa’. His Facebook Facts.

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Facebook Targets Apple's New Privacy Tool In Full-Page Newspaper Ad Campaign

Forbes Social Media

In full-page ads on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, Facebook claims it is standing up for small businesses.

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How “The Facebook Files” Could Impact Social Media Marketing

Ignite Social Media

The Fallout from “The Facebook Files” Has Begun. Rather it appears to be the first chip to fall from the bombshell “ Facebook Files ” series released two weeks prior by the Wall Street Journal. But first, what are the core issues raised by The Facebook Files? That Facebook has a list of some 5.8

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Facebook Reader a welcome feature

Sherrilynne Starkie

But little by little Twitter and Facebook have taken over the reader duties for me. Today, we are hearing reports that Facebook is going to launch a reader application, and my first thought was, I hope this won’t change Facebook’s current update feeds. Facebook would not confirm the reports at the time. Related articles.

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Forget Facebook and MySpace – Wall Street Journal Shares Your Information Too

Stay N' Alive

It seems like every other day Wall Street Journal is talking about some other Social Networking site that is revealing all your information to 3rd party advertisers. First they talked about Facebook and the fact that their apps like Zynga’s Farmville are revealing personal data about users to advertisers. Neither do I).

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Top Five: Social networks invest in quality news

Sherrilynne Starkie

This week’s must-know social media news for marketing and communications professionals includes headlines about Facebook’s attempt to clean up, support for journalism from Twitter and Google, the continuing importance of links in SEO and some new, clever features from LinkedIn. Facebook needs to turn this thing around!

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Path: the sequel

Sherrilynne Starkie

That was until last week’s relaunch which repositions the platform as a ‘smart journal’ for use on smart phones. Path, available for iOS and Android devices, also integrates with Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare and Tumblr to allow cross-posting to the social networks. This feature might ruffle some privacy feathers.

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