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Don’t FB Your Users, Facebook

Facebook: Noun. A popular social networking website that boasts some 500 million active users worldwide. FB: Verb. 1. Refers to a Facebook tactic to get reluctant users to sign up. In its younger days, when competition with MySpace was still tough, Facebook promised these potential users who are concerned about their privacy that they would [...]

Fake Steve Jobs Slams New York Times over FarmVille/Zynga Coverage

Daniel Lyons, aka the Fake Steve Jobs, ex-anonymous blogger behind The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, has some choice words for newspapers: Faced with their own demise, fearful of losing even more advertising, newspapers have made the huge mistake of becoming ever more timid, more cautious, more in bed with the companies they cover. It’s [...]