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Here’s how people look at your facebook profile, literally

Jan
2012
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When potential dates, employers and friends glance at your online social profiles, what do they see? EyeTrackShop, a startup that runs eye-tracking studies for advertisers, helped Mashable find out by applying its technology to the profile pages of popular social networks. The study used the webcams of 30 participants to record their eye movements as they were [...]

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Guess what the biggest topic on facebook was this year

Dec
2011
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The death of Osama bin Laden. 10 percent of all status updates (in English) mentioned Osama bin Laden in the days following his death, according to a Facebook blog outlining the top ten global trends in 2011. Coming in second was Green Bay Packers beating the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl. Charlie Sheen was winning in March, if you recall. [...]

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Here are the 20 most shared articles on facebook in 2011

Dec
2011
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Facebook just posted a list of the most shared articles on Facebook in 2011. They range from the serious (articles about the tsunami in Japan) to the silly (“No, Your Zodiac Sign Hasn’t Changed”). There’s even an article about a giant crocodile that made the list. Read more By Ellis Hamburger for Business Insider, 29 Nov 2011.

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Here’s the information facebook gathers on you as you browse the web

Dec
2011
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Facebook stirred up privacy concerns when it came out that its “Like” and “Share” buttons appearing all over the web actually report your visits back to Facebook servers. Now Facebook engineering director Arturo Bejar has shared what personal information the company retains with its tracking cookies, as reported by USA Today. When you’re logged in, Facebook will [...]

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Facebook to build a huge server farm in the arctic…because it’s cold

Nov
2011
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Facebook will build its first non-U.S. server farm in Sweden on the edge of the Arctic Circle, reports the Telegraph. Lulea, a town in Northern Sweden will be home to an enormous server farm which will use as much electricity as a town of 50,000 people. Some of that power will come from sustainable energy generated by [...]

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Facebook ‘may be changing brains’

Nov
2011
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Facebook may be changing people’s brains as well as their social world, research has shown. Scientists have found a direct link between the number of “Facebook friends” a person has and the size of specific parts of the brain. The regions involved have roles in social interaction as well as memory and at least one [...]

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Facebook power users have gone to twitter or google+

Oct
2011
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Spotify investor and former Facebook President Sean Parker had some harsh words for his favorite social network: Its problem isn’t privacy, it’s that some of its most active users are leaving for other services. “The threat to Facebook is that power users have gone to Twitter or Google+,” Parker told the Web 2.0 Summit. They are [...]

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Facebook marketing solutions

Oct
2011
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Check out Facebook Marketing Solutions Bootcamp, from 1 – 16 Nov 2011. The  bootcamp includes: 6 Webinars Live Q&A Weekly Tips Find out more

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What you shouldn’t post on your facebook page if you want a job

Oct
2011
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Kashmir Hill, Forbes’ indispensable privacy blogger, posted this chart today, drawn from a survey of employers. Three things to note. 1) 95 percent of employers say they use social media sites to ferret out more information about job candidates. 2) If these employers informed these job candidates why they were dropped, Facebook as we know it [...]

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Facebook timeline: 10 stunning designs

Oct
2011
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Facebook’s new Timeline gives users a large “cover photo” space at the top of the page. As we’ve already shown, this is a great opportunity to get creative with your profile presentation. We had so much fun with the last gallery, we’ve collected 10 more awesome profiles, this time focusing on creations that may be simple, but [...]

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