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Facebook Tests “Find Friends Browser” for Discovering Real Life Friends

Facebook appears to be testing a Find Friends Browser feature as a new part of its tool for helping people connect with Facebook users they already know in real life. In it, users can select to view friend suggestions of people who share their same location, work, education provider, or who are friends with a [...]

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Introducing Deals

Everyone likes getting a good deal, but it’s not always easy to find the right one at the moment you could use one. Imagine that while you’re looking for a new place to try for lunch, you could see offers from restaurants nearby on your phone. On the other hand, I already love Zachary’s Pizza, [...]

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Facebook Ads vs. Googe PPC (Pay Per Click)

This is a guest post by SmallBox Web Design These two avenues of the marketing world are just beginning to be tapped. People who are graduating college now with marketing degrees most likely have not been trained in Google PPC or on the efficacy of Facebook Ads. That’s alright. They’ll learn soon enough. To an [...]

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Facebook Like Buttons Begin Appearing in Online Banner Ads

The Like button has been available since late April, but Facebook and some of its advertisers are taking it a logical step further in a test rolling out today: Like buttons in banner ads. So if you’re reading an article a news site that runs banner ads for large advertisers like Mountain Dew and JC [...]

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U.S. Government Using Facebook For Surveillance

Did you know the American Government is now monitoring social networking sites to try to identify immigration fraud? As The Huffington Post puts it, Big Brother really is watching you! In documents obtained by the Electronic Frontiers Foundation, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services advises staff how to infiltrate social networks for the equivalent of [...]

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