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Facebook, social media »

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Jim Tobin is president of Ignite Social Media, where he works work with clients including Microsoft, Intel, Nature Made, The Body Shop,

Facebook, social media »

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Come on, you know that’s one of the first questions that crosses your mind when you get a Facebook invite — whether you’re male or…

Education, Facebook »

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While she shouldn’t have been on Facebook in the first place, a 9 year-old was exposed to a sexually suggestive ad last night while navigating the site. It brings up a number of questions surrounding parenting as well as the advertisements allowed to pass through Facebook’s ad approval department. According to Hugh Briss, [...]

Facebook »

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Last night Facebook had a security glitch that exposed the private email addresses of some users. This follows a similar problem in February when some users had their inbox exposed to other people. Several users posted upset tweets on Twitter about the situation – some limited to the very succinct “not fixed, wtf.” [...]

Facebook »

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European budget airline easyJet is poised to become the first airline company to enable users to plan and book flights entirely on Facebook.

easyJet currently offers a <a
href="http://www.facebook.com/easyJet?v=app_196542141146"…

Education, Facebook »

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For many college students, exams are right around the corner. Late nights, pots of coffee, and piles of textbooks loom on the horizon. There is so much stress around exam time that it’s necessary to give yourself a break every once in a while, and increasingly students are turning to Facebook for a [...]

Facebook »

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Last night Facebook experienced a hiccup during an update to the site’s code that publicly exposed members’ private e-mail addresses.

The privacy blunder was first discovered by Gawker

Education »

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For many people, the word mantra often conjures up the image of a yogi in the lotus position sitting beside a bodhi tree humming some sort of senseless gibberish.  But a mantra can be so much more if you allow it to be.  It can even help you become a better blogger.
What is [...]

Facebook »

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Conservative Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty has announced that he will be hosting a Town Hall this evening via his Facebook Page, which currently has over 33,000 fans. This is part of a continued wave of “Facebook Politics” in which politicians use the massively popular site as a platform for engaging with constituents. While [...]

wordpress »

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Whether we like it or not, search engines have so much power these days. They can determine who stays in business and who goes out of business with the way they rank blogs and portals. While you can’t know for sure how these engines rank your website, you can take action to give your website [...]