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Facebook has updated its policy on Promotions, Sweepstakes and Contests. It no longer requires written Facebook approval to administer a promotion on Facebook or a minimum media spend investment to support the promotion, which was previously the case (at $10,000).  Facebook said earlier this year that it didn’t have the resources to approve all possible [...]

Nick O’Neill at AllFacebook has an interesting story, claiming Facebook is testing a new "Facebook Deals" service, which would let businesses provide deals when users check-in to their brick and mortar locations.  We’re going to have to keep this one filed under "rumor". The validity of the story is questionable, as O’Neill points out himself, [...]

Facebook announced a few Platform updates, including updates to the Live Stream Plugin, "liked" articles appearing in search results, and improvements to real-time updates. The second one is in line with a feature the company was testing that we mentioned recently. "Consistent with how we treat other Open Graph object types, we’ve introduced the ability [...]

In early February, Facebook announced that it had 400 million users, and while nothing’s certain at this point, it looks like an announcement regarding the next big milestone may be just around the corner.  A new report has indicated that Facebook expects to lay claim to 500 million users in June. Nick O’Neill wrote earlier [...]

A number of social networks may be in a significant amount of trouble.  Facebook has managed to patent the idea of "dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network." This is no rumor or joke; the paperwork is all in order.  Facebook filed for what the United States Patent and Trademark [...]


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