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Facebook IPO, The Value of Personal Data

February 2nd, 2012 Social Guy

Facebook IPO

Facebook, the largest online social networking site, is going to file for an IPO (Initial Public Offering) on Wednesday that will finally value the company at $75 billion to $100 billion, cashing in on the fuel that powers the engine of Internet commerce: Personal Data.

Facebook is considered so precious because it is more than the sum of its users. More than the world’s largest social network, it is a fast-churning data machine that captures and processes every click and interaction on its platform.

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Are You Fully Utilizing LinkedIn for Your Local Business?

January 30th, 2012 Guest Authors

LinkedIn for Your Local Business

If you have a LinkedIn company page, great! Below are a few tips on how to make it more professional. If you don’t have a LinkedIn page, then get on it and make one! The tips below will help get you create a LinkedIn page and utilize it to the max.

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Twitter Offers to Block Offensive Posts, But Tweets Must Still Flow

January 29th, 2012 Social Guy

Twitter Offers to Block Offensive Posts

Twitter, the popular social networking site has said “if required by the law”, it can block tweets in a particular country. Twitter which has around 300 million users, wrote on its official blog post titled, “Tweets must still flow”, – “we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country, while keeping it available in the rest of the world.”

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Plink – Earn Facebook Credits for Dining-Out or Purchasing Offline

January 27th, 2012 Social Guy

plink -Earn Facebook Credits

Consumer appetite for Facebook Credits is rapidly growing. To satisfy that appetite, consumers now have a new opportunity called Plink, the first Facebook Credits-based loyalty program that rewards Facebook members for dining and making purchases at their favorite restaurants and offline retailers.

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Checking In On Foursquare, Explore the Local World

January 23rd, 2012 Guest Authors

foursquare

There are numerous diverse apps and social networking apps and it’s tough to keep up with which ones are worth downloading and using. Meet Foursquare, it’s all about checking in at a certain location, whether that is a movie theater, restaurant or hospital.

Here are a few reasons you should start checking in as soon as possible:

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Posted in Android, iPhone, Mobile, Social Media, Social Networking Tags: Apps, Shopping 1 Comment »
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