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Can Blackbox Republic Breathe New Life Into the Online Love Market?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 14, 2009 9:00 PM / 6 Comments
Would you pay $25 per month to belong to a social network for "sex positive" Burning Man types, with extensive privacy controls and real-world events planning? Former enterprise collaboration software Continue reading »


Facebook's Stock Sale: Why You Should Care
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 13, 2009 10:48 AM / 9 Comments
Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies will buy $100 million in Facebook stocks from the company's employees, Facebook announced today. Most casual Facebook users will probably look at that news Continue reading »


Blame it on MySpace: Ad Spending on Social Networks Expected to Drop 3% This Year
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 9, 2009 10:36 AM / 6 Comments
According to a new report from eMarketer, paid advertising on social networks in the US will drop 3% in 2009. In 2008, advertisers spent $1.175 billion on ads on social Continue reading »


Who Uses Social Networks and What Are They Like? (Part 2)
Written by Sarah Perez / July 9, 2009 8:31 AM / 14 Comments
Read Part 1 of this post here. In a recent study by Anderson Analytics, the demographics and psychographics of social networking users on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn were revealed. Continue reading »


Who Uses Social Networks and What Are They Like? (Part 1)
Written by Sarah Perez / July 9, 2009 8:30 AM / 7 Comments
A new study by Anderson Analytics looks into the demographics and psychographics of social networking users on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn with a goal of providing marketers with information Continue reading »


Facebook's New Events Publisher Demonstrates How Wrong the Site's New Privacy Strategy Is
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 8, 2009 11:34 AM / 22 Comments
"Dear Grandma, would you like to come out to the bar with my friends and I for a drink tonight?" Your grandmother is on Facebook now and Facebook introduced today Continue reading »


Facebook's Own Estimates Show Declining Student Numbers; Now More Grandparents Than High School Users
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 6, 2009 6:02 PM / 69 Comments
How fickle are kids these days? Just when all the grown ups started figuring out Facebook, college and high school users have declined in absolute number by 20% and 15% Continue reading »


Facebook Wants You to Be Less Private - But Why?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 1, 2009 1:56 PM / 32 Comments
Facebook held a conference call today about changes being made to the website's privacy features but we were left feeling a little confused. A long list of settings are being Continue reading »


Facebook's New Privacy Policies: Live Blogging the Press Call
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 1, 2009 9:32 AM / 3 Comments
Facebook is holding a press webcast and phone call this morning regarding upcoming changes to its privacy policies and features. It's an ongoing story we've been following closely but as Continue reading »


Facebook Does Too Little, Too Late With A Persian Version for Iranians
Written by Steven Walling / June 18, 2009 10:30 PM / 5 Comments
As of tonight, Facebook has launched a new beta version of the site in Persian, in order to further enable the flood of news that has poured out of Iran Continue reading »


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