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America Has Its Own Secret Police: The Creep Factor

Thursday, Mar. 10, 2011 Data Mining: How Companies Now Know Everything About You By Joel Stein Three hours after I gave my name and e-mail address to Michael Fertik, the CEO of Reputation.com, he called me back and read my Social Security number to me. “We had it a couple of hours ago,” he said….

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Facebooks Worst Enemies

Just days after the New Yorker published a profile of Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the New York Post posted a lengthy, exclusive interview with Tyler Winklevoss, who, together with his twin brother Cameron, has been fighting Facebook in court. The Post describes the Harvard University graduates (both Olympic rowers) as “gorgeous, lantern-jawed hunks”…

Facebook Lawyer `Unsure’ Whether Zuckerberg Signed 84% Ownership Contract

Play Video July 20 (Bloomberg) — Bloomberg’s Scarlet Fu reports on major newsmakers in today’s Movers & Shakers. (Source: Bloomberg) A lawyer for Facebook Inc. said she was “unsure” whether company founder Mark Zuckerberg signed a contract that purportedly entitles a New York man to 84 percent of the world’s biggest social-networking service. Paul Ceglia…

Three Business Benefits of Measuring Facebook

Today, we reveal two key pieces of additional information that will help organizations: a. Understand the benefits of measuring Facebook (a necessary element in forming social marketing business objectives) and b. Identify vendors that offer measurement solutions for Facebook. DISCLOSURE: Web Analytics Demystified works with many web analytics vendors including some of those discussed in…

Expert says social gaming succeeds by appealing to women, other non-traditional gamers

The Facebook games that millions love (and hate) By Doug Gross, // –> — Early each morning, millions of farmers around the world rise to toil in their fields. By night, gangs of mobsters scheme and legions of poker players shuffle up and deal. Sure, none of it’s real. But the overwhelming popularity of so-called…