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"Follow" Networks and The Creep Factor - Why It Isn't a Facebook Play

Stay N' Alive

I suggested it made some sense - a closed environment is a good way to compete with an open one (and vice-versa), however there's one flaw to some of this - Facebook actually isn't that closed. In a sense, I see Google and Facebook working together, on 2 different planes to open up the social landscape.

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You Must Read This!

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It's not only competing with the regular slew of online publishers and traditional publishers trying to figure out how the digitization of media has forced their way to rethink publishing, but they are now competing with you and I - the new publishers of content. social graph. american journalism. charlie rose.

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The Marketing Problem Is Simple: There Are Too Many Ads

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Our source calls this business 'FaceSense' because it will compete with Google's ad network, Ad Sense. A Facebook ad exchange seems like a smart enough cash grab, but I'm hopeful that they will soon evolve into thinking about what the social graph means to people and how they can better connect to the companies that they care about.

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Apple is Creating a “Social Network” the Right Way

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Today Apple launched, quite simply , a “Social Network for Music&#. What’s so powerful is that they’re not really trying to create a social network at all. Apple realizes the Social Graph is just a complement to something bigger. Facebook’s is the Social Graph.

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Content Optimization: How to Optimize your Content for Maximum Results

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If I’m competing against domains that are super high authority, then it becomes more of a challenge. Basically, you’ll provide Facebook with snippets of code that it can interpret, including: The og:title tag (the title) tells Facebook what your page is about and how it should be displayed within the social graph.

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The Power of Google+: Privacy "Circles" the Entire Experience

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I'm extremely excited to see how Facebook and Twitter compete in this new game. The cool thing about it all is the game is no longer focused on who has your social graph or your content (although that is certainly a part) - it is now about who has the best privacy controls and that's a great battle to sit between as a user.

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6 Parts of Your Company That Should be Listening to Social Conversations

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The obvious potential here is talent recruiting, in both finding potential employees and examining their online social graphs. They can see how connected and networked those people are online and how they make use of the available social channels. Executives and Management.

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