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German State Bans Facebook Pages, Like Buttons

A privacy organization in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein has demanded local websites remove their Facebook Pages and take off any…

By Frank Watson · 20 Aug 2011

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2 Books Offer Killer Social PR, Facebook Ad Tactics

If the social media book fits; buy it, download it, read it and share it. This summer two noteworthy books hit the…

By Lisa Buyer · 17 Aug 2011

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Leveraging Facebook Ads for Obscure Charity Donations

How to target the right people for donations to three hypothetical charities: a religion-focused Islamic charity with an English-speaking international focus; a…

By Merry Morud · 16 Aug 2011

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LinkedIn Tweaks Their Experimental Social Ads

LinkedIn has been experimenting with new social ad formats that tell users when members of their network follow a given advertiser. Unlike…

By Rob D Young · 15 Aug 2011

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Users Respond to Google+ and Facebook Interfaces Nearly Identically [Study]

A study from Eye Track Shop trying to show whether Google+ ads have more or less potential than Facebook ads demonstrates how…

By Rob D Young · 15 Aug 2011

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Launch of Google+ Games Heats Up Social Gaming Battle With Facebook

Google+ has added its first 16 games. The good news for developers is that Google is only taking a 5 percent commission,…

By Rob D Young · 14 Aug 2011

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The Name Game: Display Names and the Law Of Unintended Consequences

The Lab's new name game has hardly been a ringing success. People really don't like it when you mess with their choices…

By Avril Korman · 13 Aug 2011

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Hey, Facebook: Not Liking the Group by Topic Feature or Seeing Strangers In My Top News Feed

Earlier this week Facebook rolled out a clunky “grouping” feature, which lumps together any mention of a topic (say Google, for example).…

By Danny Goodwin · 12 Aug 2011

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Twitter Adds @User, Activity Tabs, New Reply Feature

Twitter is adding an @User tab, Activity tab, and the ability to tweet to any user from their profile page. These features…

By Rob D Young · 12 Aug 2011

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No TV? Emergency Search When Google Is Not Fast Enough

In keeping track of how the riots were escalating from London to all over Britain, became an adventure in getting the best,…

By Jonathan Allen · 11 Aug 2011