New and notable today- New on Facebook: Like button -  A newer more compact like button similar to Twitter’s tweet button.  According to the report, unliking is a bit more complicated. Status autosuggest – Now Facebook will autocomplete your status with friend’s names and pages you like. Places – Facebook made it’s announcements that it [...]

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Google announced in a blog post today that it was killing Wave, a web-based messaging platform intended to promote real time communication and collaboration.  Wave features heralded by Google include character-by-character live typing within the web browser and the ability to share images and other media in real time. Despite the initial excitement surrounding the product when it launched last year, Wave [...]

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Facebook is trying to save face after privacy concerns surrounding its Phonebook feature spread virally across the web.

The social media site has posted the following statement on its blog:

Rumors claiming that Facebook’s Phonebook feature exposes phone numbers are false. The Phonebook allows you to find your friends’ phone numbers if they’ve posted them to Facebook and made them available for their friends. Learn and share the facts in this blog post.

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The Facebook Ads Team sent out an e-mail to the site’s advertising partners today announcing new changes to Facebook’s privacy settings: Facebook will roll out changes today that will make it easier for our users to understand and control their privacy settings. As this change will have an impact on our users, we wanted to let you, [...]

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After weeks of controversy over Facebook’s new privacy settings, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally admitted that the social media giant has made mistakes and promised changes to its privacy policies.   In a Washington Post op-ed piece published today, Zuckerberg attempted an apology to its more than 400 million users in response to mounting criticism over issues with Facebook’s privacy settings.  Facebook has come [...]

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If you think social media is only for your company’s marketing department, think again. Coca-Cola recently unveiled a 3-page document (below) to govern and encourage the use of social media by all of its employees. The company understands that its employees may be representing themselves not only personally, but also as employees of the company, through social media. Coca-Cola sees [...]

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Techcrunch reported today on Quantcast’s 2009 tracking of mobile web usage. My take: Even though mobile web usage increased by 110% since 2008, the numbers are still pretty weak, with mobile browsers accounting for only around 1% of all browser usage.  In fact, according to the W3C, even the ancient Internet Explorer 6 browser is still [...]

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Here’s a funny story to kick off the New Year.  One of the big trending topics on Twitter today is “Whore Members.”  This seemingly “craigslist-esque” trending topic is nothing more than a misreading of the hash tag #WhoRemembers – a harmless topic where people reminisce on things remembered. In my searching, I couldn’t find a [...]

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A client of mine recently asked me how much a mention on a high profile news site is worth. I didn’t have a simple answer for her as to how much in terms of dollars a mention or link on, let’s say, CNN.com, is worth. Instead, I offered a detailed explanation of how she could [...]

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Privacy advocates filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday, arguing that recent changes to Facebook’s privacy policies and settings violate federal consumer protection laws. The complaint, filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and nine other advocacy groups, addresses changes rolled out by Facebook earlier this month that make certain information [...]

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