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- 15 January 2013
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News: How Your Facebook Privacy Settings Impact Graph Search
Facebook today announced a new search capability--currently in beta--called Graph Search. Here's how your Facebook privacy settings will affect what others can find.
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News: Facebook enhances social search with 'Graph Search' engine
Facebook is rolling out a major new search engine designed to give users more options in sorting through topics and interests based on their friends.
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News: Facebook enhances social search with 'Graph Search' engine
Facebook is rolling out a major new search engine designed to give users more options in sorting through topics and interests based on their friends.
- 14 January 2013
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News: Facebook event speculation turns to phones, mobile, search
With Facebook preparing for its mysterious press conference on Tuesday, speculation is surging that the announcement could be about anything from a new smartphone, a new mobile plan to a new search feature.
- 11 January 2013
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News: Some Facebook users asked for $100 to message Zuckerberg
Want to send a message directly to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg? It might cost you $100, if you don't want it to wind up in his spam folder.
- 09 January 2013
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News: 'Worst CEO' list calls out Zynga's Pincus, Zuckerberg's 'hoodie mentality'
Zynga's Mark Pincus made the annual "Worst CEOs" list compiled by Dartmouth College professor Sydney Finkelstein, which also nearly included Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Andrew Mason of Groupon.
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News: Strong growth of 'collaborative social' decision making in 2012: QlikTech
Collaborative social decision making came to the forefront a little bit more stronger in 2012 than what was expected.
- 08 January 2013
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News: Talk about big data: How the Library of Congress can index all 170 billion tweets ever posted
The Library of Congress has received a 133TB file containing 170 billion tweets -- every single post that's been shared on the social networking site -- and now it has to figure out how to index it for researchers.
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News: US Library of Congress saving 500 million tweets per day in archives
The U.S. Library of Congress is now storing 500 million tweets per day as part of its efforts to build a Twitter archive, and has added a total of about 170 billion tweets to its collection.
- 07 January 2013
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News: Work it: LinkedIn endorsements explained
The way we find jobs and pitch ourselves to prospective employers is changing rapidly, and LinkedIn is trying to help you stay ahead of the game. The "social network for professionals" recently introduced a new feature called Endorsements that, with a little help from your coworkers and close friends, can help you catch the eye of recruiters who are short on time but long on candidates.
- 04 January 2013
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News: 4 Facebook Privacy Settings for the New Year
Facebook's privacy settings are a pain point for many users: From the chaos it's caused after a privacy breach to the confusing settings after the launch of Timeline in 2011, securing your data and understanding who can see which parts of your profile have never been easy.
- 02 January 2013
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News: More heads of state are using Twitter, study says
There were 123 heads of state and governments using Twitter to communicate with citizens and the rest of the world as of December 2012, a think tank said Tuesday.
- 30 December 2012
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News: Facebook app spurs spike in Snapchat popularity
Facebook's new Poke app has apparently been a blessing in disguise for Snapchat.
- 28 December 2012
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News: China tightens grip on Internet use with identity requirement
China's government will require Internet users to identify themselves to service providers when they sign up for Internet access, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
- 26 December 2012
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News: Instagram faces class action lawsuit for updated terms of service
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Instagram over the company's controversial update to its terms of service last week.
- 24 December 2012
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News: Instagram update adds filter, tools after license kerfuffle
It was business as usual for Instagram's developers this week despite the kerfuffle over the photo-sharing service's overreaching terms of use agreement.
- 23 December 2012
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News: Yahoo's Flickr offers 3 free months of its Pro service
Yahoo's holiday gift to the masses is three free months of its Flickr Pro photo and video hosting service, which normally costs $24.95 a year.
- 22 December 2012
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News: Facebook launches Poke app, reinventing feature
Facebook has reinvented its Poke feature with a new standalone iOS app that lets you send messages, photos and videos to your friends on the social networking service that disappear within 10 seconds of someone opening them.
- 21 December 2012
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News: Instagram takes a hit, but users may be too addicted to quit
Even though it backed away from a controversial change to its Terms of Use policy, Instagram's once glossy image has taken a big hit.
- 20 December 2012
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News: Twitter's downloadable archive: A hands-on tour
Twitter recently introduced the option to download your entire archive of tweets and save them to your local hard drive, a feature similar to one that Facebook introduced in late 2010. The new Twitter feature will be welcomed by longtime and prolific Twitter users who, due to Twitter's restrictions, could only access their last 3,200 messages on the micro-blogging site turned self-styled "information network."
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