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Facebook Launches Mobile Interface for Baseline Phones

by Mike Mansell January 20, 2011
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It seems as if every time we as consumers turn around, manufactures are releasing new and improved smartphones; more feature-rich and power-packed than the ones they released only a matter of days before.  However, with the constant innovations that the smartphone industry is making it is sometimes easy to forget about the non-smart phones that are still sold day-in [...]

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GlassDoor Names Facebook as the Best Place to Work

by Mike Mansell December 15, 2010
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While sometimes replaceable, an enterprise’s workforce is truly its most important asset.  Without a strong, motivated, and weathered workforce, a company cannot survive.  For this reason, companies large and small often try to make their workplaces enjoyable and comfortable for their employees in hopes that a desirable workplace will lead to higher levels of innovation and [...]

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Drop It Like It’s Hot. Facebook Acquires Drop.io

by Jeff Weisbein October 29, 2010
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Facebook has acquired the file sharing/storage site Drop.io according to a post on the company blog.  The service will be shutting down on December 15th, 2010.  Yet again, Facebook is acquiring startups for talent, technology, and assets only to leave the startup to die (e.g. Friendfeed) or just to shut it down (e.g. essentially every [...]

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Facebook Download Feature: Allowing Users to Transfer Networks?

by Mike Mansell October 8, 2010
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As you may be aware, Facebook has recently begun the introduction of a feature that will allow users to download an offline copy of their social network profile that they will be able to view and tinker with as they see fit. While this does show Facebook’s sense of privacy in allowing you to see [...]

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Why I’m Fed Up With Facebook

by Mike Mansell September 26, 2010
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As a long-time Facebook user, I have become more and more frustrated and fed-up with the social networking site over the the last few weeks. This frustration is being fueled by numerous instabilities and vulnerabilities on Facebook, some of which Facebook doesn’t even appear to be addressing. As you likely know, Facebook was the subject [...]

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The Social Network

by Jeff Weisbein September 21, 2010
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The Social Network is hitting movie theaters on October 1st.  If you are unfamiliar with The Social Network, it’s a film inspired by the creation of Facebook.  The stars of the movie include Jesse Eisenberg who plays Zuck, Justin Timberlake who plays Sean Parker (former President of Facebook), and Andrew Garfield who plays Zuck’s best [...]

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Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp, Booyah Should Be Cautious of Facebook

by Jeff Weisbein August 24, 2010
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Last week, Facebook announced Facebook Places, I’m going to spare you the details of what Places actually is because I’m sure you have read about it elsewhere.  Instead I’m going to discuss how bad of an idea it was for these companies to have partnered with Facebook for their Places product.  Who exactly partnered with [...]

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Why Facebook Will Not Acquire Diaspora

by Guest Author August 4, 2010
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This article was written by Sam Phippen, who is a 19 year old computer science student at the University of Bristol in the UK.  You can visit him on the web at teaisaweso.me. A few weeks ago, Jeff wrote an article about the possibility of Facebook acquiring Diaspora. While I think this idea is interesting, I [...]

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Facebook Launches Q&A Service

by Jeff Weisbein July 28, 2010
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Facebook is in the process of rolling out their brand new Q&A service called Questions.  Questions has been in development for months now as we saw with their request for beta testers.  Could this be the future of Facebook?  If Facebook can build up a decent quality database of questions with good answers, it may [...]

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Zuck At Risk of Losing Ownership In Facebook

by Jeff Weisbein July 25, 2010
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A lawyer for Facebook said she is “unsure” whether Mark Zuckerberg signed a contract that reportedly entitles Paul Ceglia to 84 percent of the social network. Paul Ceglia sued Facebook and Zuckerberg in state court June 30, claiming that a contract from April entitles him to ownership of most of Facebook. Ceglia’s lawyer produced a [...]

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