Whether you’re a Facebook fan, Twitter lover, Stumbleupon … uh … stumbler, you know there’s something addictive to sharing things online. It’s not just you. Millions of people are seemingly addicted to social media in its many forms. Thanks to a new infographic from Marketo, we now know the 10 common types of social media […]
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Facebook says its new News Feed is a \”personalized newspaper,\” so it hires the staff behind a storytelling platform to help people tell stories. Facebook has acquired the team behind storytelling platform Storylane, a blogging site akin to the likes of the slower-paced Medium. Storylane founder Jonathan Gheller posted the news to the site today,
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A woman is having what is believed to be a stroke. She manages to drag her laptop toward her and sends an almost incomprehensible call-for-help Facebook message to her husband. Fleur Costello of Leatherhead, England, is the Facebook Queen. At least that\’s what her friends call her. The 40-year-old is always on the site. She
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Web developers and browser makers were on course toward building the universal software platform — until smartphones got in the way. For a while there, the browser was winning the war. New startups launched online services rather than packaged software. Browser makers raced to transform the Web from a place to publish documents into a
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Facebook helped the FBI take down an international crime ring that used a botnet to infect 11 million computers and steal more than $850 million, one of the largest cybercrime hauls in history. The FBI announced today that with the social-networking giant\’s assistance, it had arrested 10 people from countries around the world who it
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Mozilla released its official first social API called Facebook Messenger for your Firefox browser. So you can continue your conversations on Facebook at wherever you go on the web. You can also chat with your Facebook friends, view your notifications, friend requests, messages and send reply all in your Firefox browser without open Facebook site.
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It’s no secret that Facebook treats your personal data as a commodity. But when that data ends up on the open market, you may be surprised at the price it fetches: in this case, less than half a thousandth of a penny. That’s the rate paid by Bogomil Shopov, a Bulgarian blogger and digital rights
