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Zuckerberg in the political world? What does a 28-year-old billionaire owner of a social media company know about politics? Wall Street Journal announced that Zuckerberg and fellow tech industry leaders are organizing a political group (unnamed until is formal announcement sometime in the near future) that will challenge such topics as education and immigration.[read more]

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Facebook launched its new design today with an introduction from Mark Zuckerberg that this was the "best personalized newspaper” for the world. Well, I worked in the newspaper business, sir, and this is no newspaper. It's better in some ways, and worse in others.[read more]

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Facebook took another step toward becoming its own web universe when it launched a search engine for shared content. This move challenges the future relevance of search engines like Google, as well as review sites such as Yelp and Foursquare.[read more]

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"Many SMEs are getting disillusioned with Facebook as a marketing tool. Paying for promoted posts just isn't 'social' and so few posts are being seen. Facebook for us has always been first and foremost a social tool for relationship marketing but it's hard to build/nurture relationships when you're competing with corporates paying to muscle in to simply broadcast."[read more]

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Mark Zuckerberg has been brought down a few notches on the Billionaire social ladder. While his fortune is still an impressive $10.2 billion, Zuckerberg has fallen behind James Goodnight, the co-founder of SAS Institute at $21 billion... Confidence in Facebook’s earnings have been shaken by investors as the social media giant fails to improve on Wall Street but does Zuckerberg’s losses have a direct correlation?[read more]

Nothing like some good old fashioned competition to bring out some good old fashioned condescension amongst adversaries. Wait 'til you read how Mark Zuckerberg described Google+.[read more]

As for when this new games network will be launched the best the writer could offer was the non-commital "coming soon." Rest assured the Mr. Zuckerberg et al will be watching as will rest of us as this high-stakes poker game plays itself out and the two giants continue to look for ways to "one-app" each other.[read more]

With the ink not even dry on the Google+ press release, Facebook announced the addition of the Microsoft-owned Skype as the war rages on as to who can one up, or is that one-app each other next.[read more]

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Zuckerberg and Facebook's disdain for what is basically a popcorn movie that (even if it did live up to Zuckerberg's worse fears) could hardly do worse to deteriorate the public's perception of him than he has mismanaging his own pr, is both odd and, in some ways, hypocritical.[read more]

For those of you not familiar with Dunbar's number it basically says that the most amount of people that you can maintain stable social relationships with is 150.  According to wikipedia: “Dunbar's number is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. These are...[read more]

Mark Zuckerberg was in the house at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in downtown Sao Paulo yesterday, evangelizing the gospel of Facebook to an “entrepreneurs forum” of mostly under-25 students who showed up at the big neoconservative education and training organization to learn how to be a successful young entrepreneur...[read more]

There have been several key events that have dramatically altered the way in which we communicate, all of which have helped to further our understanding of the world and those around us. Most recently, the Internet has revolutionised the way we conect, be it on IM, via e-mail or on a social networking site. Anyone with an Internet...[read more]