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Google Wants To Be Facebook, Facebook Wants To Be Gmail
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google has plans to make Gmail "more social," according to an anonymous source. The idea is to make it easier to post links and share status updates. Meanwhile, Facebook is apparently planning a "Gmail killer." More »
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Beauty.com Facebook Revolt Quelled Within Minutes With Free Stuff
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Kim's Beauty.com order was eligible for a pretty neat "free gift with purchase" deal, but the free item ran out before her order went through. She, and other customers, took to the company's Facebook page to complain about the situation. A company representative reached out on Facebook, offering to send a new free item out to the dissatisfied customers. This representative turned out to be the company president. More »
Waldenbooks Employees Protest Orders To Destroy Unsold Books
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If you've ever worked in a bookstore, you're probably intimate with the practice of pulping mass market paperbacks. Publishers reimburse booksellers for inventory they don't sell, but paperbacks are so cheap to produce that it would cost more to return them than to throw them away. Instead, stores tear off the covers, mail those back as proof of unsold inventory, and throw the books in the trash. More »
AT&T Randomly Logs You Into Someone Else's Facebook Account
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A glitch at AT&T is causing some mobile phone used to be randomly shuffled into other people's Facebook accounts. Apparently the carrier has confused which phones should be logged into which accounts. Whoops. More »
Facebook Security Check Words Freaked Me Out
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While messing around on Facebook, Ian got this horrifying combination of security words that seems like something straight out of a Final Destination flick. He writes: More »
Anonymous Facebook Employe Says Network Keeps Track Of Whom You Stalk Most
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In an interview with an unnamed Facebook employee, the Rumpus revealed some disconcerting revelations about the privacy, or lack thereof, in the social network. The most eye-popping of these is that Facebook keeps track of the profiles you click on the most. More »
Facebook Founder Says People Don't Even Want Privacy
Mark Zuckerberg thinks you don't even really care about your privacy anymore because the "social norm" has changed. This makes it OK for his company to change the privacy settings of 350 million users. More »
Ah Yes, Facebook Flavored Vitaminwater. We Needed That.
Coca-Cola has announced the debut of a Facebook-flavored Vitaminwater called "Connect." Facebook apparently tastes like "black cherry-lime," which, by the way, does not sound delicious to us. More »
Would-Be Facebook Suicides Not Permitted Death With Dignity
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Facebook has shut down the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine's access to the site, claiming the service violates Facebook's "Statement of Rights and Responsibilities." More »
FCC Chair Spams Facebook Friends
His account apparently compromised by a spammer's program, FCC chair Julius Genachowski sent out a message this morning to all his Facebook friends that said, “Adam got me started making money with this." Adam Smith perhaps? We'll never know, as the website Julius linked to is now unavailable. More »
Kill Off Your Online Identities With The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine
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Supposedly the most depressing day of the year is just a few weeks away, and that sucks. But if you off yourself, you can't drink, so it's a conundrum. What you can do is use the website suicidemachine.org to remove yourself from unnecessary social media sites that either you've stopped using or don't really enjoy anymore. More »
Transforming Online Kvetchers Into Brand Boosters
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Researchers announced that consumers who kvetch using social media are more likely than others to also spread positive word of mouth online. More »
Planet Hollywood Responds To Negative Facebook Comment With Free Wine And Chocolates
Frustrated with a room mix-up and subsequent bad customer service at Planet Hollywood's hotel/casino in Las Vegas, Brad expressed his frustration in a note on their Facebook fan page. More »
Get Virtual Game Cash For Health Reform Astroturfing
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Don't want to fork over actual cash or start a shady "free" trial in order to get sweet, sweet virtual currency for your favorite game on Facebook or MySpace? Well, you could always take a health care survey that pays you to tell your representatives in Congress how opposed you are to health care reform. Mmm, smell that astroturf! More »
My Bloomin' Onion Coupon Vanished
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Aaron was so close to a free Outback Steakhouse Bloomin' Onion appetizer he could practically feel the fried batter clogging up his arteries. More »
Lee Declares All Facebook Contest Entrants Winners
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Something appears to have gone wrong with a contest that Lee Jeans ran on Facebook, and the company was forced to change the rules partway through. However, instead of canceling the contest or changing the rules in their own favor, the change means that everyone who entered the contest before Wednesday, December 2, under the original rules, won automatically. Yay! More »
Depressed Lady Loses Benefits Because Of Her Facebook Photos
A depressed woman has lost her benefits because her insurance agent found Facebook photos where she appears to be having fun. More »
PS3 Tacks On Facebook Two Days After Xbox 360
With a surprisingly short turnaround from rumor to official announcement to reality, Sony cranked out a PlayStation 3 firmware update that added Facebook access to the console Thursday, just a couple days after Microsoft's ballyhooed addition of a portal to the social networking service. More »
Mafia Wars CEO Brags About Scamming Users From Day One
From the beginning, the profitability and viability of popular Facebook social networking games Mafia Wars and Farmville were predicated on the backs of scams, boasts Zynga CEO Mark Pincus in this video. "I did every horrible thing in the book just to get revenues," he crows in the clip to a gathered bunch of fellow scumbag app developers. More »
Social Network Games: Fake Mobsters, Real Racket
You might enjoy raking in money as a fake mobster in Mafia Wars, or collecting cotton subsidies in FarmVille, but TechCrunch's Michael Arrington argues that the real racket in virtual games is for the companies that run them, and for the social networking sites that host them. More »
