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25 May 2011

Last week, Facebook was caught red handed using a prominent PR firm to engage in a smear campaign against Google. Burson-Marsteller, which is owned by WPP, was retained by Facebook in an effort to call attention to a number of privacy-related issues with Google. That Facebook would do this is somewhat ironic given that its [...]

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Tags: acquisition costs, burson marsteller, currency action, facebook, glass houses, google, mark zuckerberg, old adage, virtual currency

Two Web Apps We Love Are Up For Sale, Who’ll Buy Streak.ly & Facto.me?

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9 May 2011

A little bird just told us two interesting web apps from an admirable developer are up for grabs. Creator Kyle Bragger, who also cranked out killer dev/design web app Forrst, is looking for a buyer for these applications. Last year, we told you about two great consumer web apps. Streak.ly is a motivational tool that [...]

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Tags: accomplishing your goals, acorns, consumer web, little bird, motivational tool, social interaction, uptick, virtual currency, web apps

Bitcoin.org – Pay Using A Virtual Currency

In: web resources

7 May 2011

Paypal has modified the way in which we make online payments for good, but this new project shows us that there is always room for improvement. Basically, we can define Bitcoin as a peer-to-peer currency that lets people conduct transactions without having to resort to any financial institution in the process. By downloading and installing [...]

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Tags: business question, comfind, financial institution, Linux, mac windows, PayPal, startups, virtual currency, virtual wallet

Facebook Gets A Social Research Platform For Brands

In: web resources

6 Apr 2011

Techlightenment, a division of Experian, has partnered with performance-based ad network Adknowledge, to launch as social research platform on Facebook. The Social Research Platform (SRP) can layer opt-in social data of a user’s interests and demographics on top of survey responses. With access to this information, brands can make better decisions about ad campaigns, marketing [...]

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Tags: ankur shah, competitive positioning, experian, facebook, game points, hollywood studios, research platform, social gaming, virtual currency

lolstack – Image sharing done right

In: web resources

16 Feb 2011

lolstack is an image sharing community dedicated to original content. Current image sharing solutions suffer from a variety of problems. -4chan: Terrible signal to noise ratio. It’s full of low quality content. -Reddit’s /r/pics: Too many reposts. The same pictures get cycled through ad nauseum. -failblog: No sense of community, also full of reposts. lolstack [...]

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