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February 2010 Archives

Thursday, 25th February 2010

Facebook Discloses How Much Money It Makes From Facebook Credits

Over the past several months, Facebook has been testing and rolling out new features for Facebook Credits - a virtual currency that collected and exchanged users' real-world money for on-site credits that could be used in many of the site's applications and social games. Since its launch in May 2009, the system has rapidly evolved, and Facebook…

Social Jolie O'Dell comments

Location Data Sensitive Like Medical Information, Says Congressional Witness

"The writing is on the wall that there will be baseline privacy legislation introduced," said John Morris, general counsel for the Center for Democracy and Technology at a Congressional hearing on location data and privacy yesterday. "It will require location be treated as sensitive data, like medical data. You'll need to do more than just post a…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Entrepreneur Social Network Sprouter Now With 100% More Twitter

A few weeks ago we brought you a brief list of social networks for meeting and conversing with entrepreneurs, and in the comments section we received lots of suggestions that could have made the list as well. One such suggestion was Sprouter, which is, for lack of a better description and despite having a few unique features, a Twitter clone for…

Chris Cameron comments

Yammer Opens Up Its Microblog Network To a Much Broader Community

Yammer is opening up its microbogging platform. In "Yammer Community" people may now create a community without the requirement that an email address be associated with a particular domain. This is a big change for Yammer. Many companies do not have their own domains. Opening up the platform means that the service is open to a much larger audience…

Enterprise Alex Williams comments

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Tweepi: Twitter Management for the Spreadsheet Afficianado

If you fully realize the value of social media, then you're constantly trying to parse, scrub, clean and otherwise organize your Twitter account. It's a never-ending battle and often a steep, uphill one at that, but Tweepi can shift your effort into high gear - the geeky way. Tweepi lets you know right off the bat that it may not be pretty and, as…

Social Mike Melanson comments

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