Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 3, 2011

It looks as if Facebook has gotten its hands slapped. The Federal Trade Commission announced on Tuesday that a settlement has been reached in regards to Facebook’s privacy practices. Facebook will now have to conduct privacy audits every two years for the next 20 years.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 6, 2011

It wasn’t long ago that Facebook surpassed Google in being the most visited website online. The big beef a lot of people have with Facebook is that it isn’t “open.&# Facebook follows the “proprietary&# system. And then there’s the whole privacy issue. Not on Facebook. Just one thing.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Facebook claims to be getting a billion searches per day without even trying. Facebook announced on Friday that you can now track your searches and delete them if you want. Privacy concerns aside, would a Facebook search engine change the landscape of search ? What would that do to Facebook’s relationship with Bing?

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OCTOBER 22, 2011

With Circles, you have greater privacy and targeted marketing abilities than you have with any other social networking service. Google+ allows you set the privacy setting for each aspect of your public profile. You can’t do that on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. Google+ has an awesome video chat feature called Hangouts.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 13, 2011

While everyone’s talking about Google Plus being some type of game-changer well before it’s even had wide release, many are already asking if it’s going to be the Facebook killer. After all, when Facebook came out, Myspace was the preferred social media forum and, in the space of a few years, it took over.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

There’s an interesting article on TechCrunch which, while discussing privacy issues related to Google+ and Facebook, also had this to say: Google’s PageRank algorithm is seriously out of date. Those smaller messages are references to Facebook, Twitter and many other social media sites, forums included.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Google+ is borrowing a page from Facebook. Google+ has made the sign-up feature very simple, and they seem to have addressed privacy issues fairly reasonably. Is everyone going to be signed in to Google+ or Facebook? I knew it would come to this eventually. Or maybe they were planning this all along.

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