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May 30

Facebook is a public company now, so please click on an ad or two

A few days after the Facebook IPO, which made Mark Zuckerberg a billionaire, Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg gave a speech to the 2012 graduating class of Harvard Business School. Incidentally, Sandberg became a billionaire as well. During her speech, in a half-whimsical way she uttered these words: “Keep in touch via Facebook; this is critical to your future success. And since we’re public now, could you click on an ad or two while you’re there?” Yeah.

May 29

How Facebook is able to take your Likes and turn it into contextual data

Facebook is now up to 900 million users, which was uncovered in their recent Initial Public Offering. Having that many users, close to a billion, is astronomic for any one entity which then has to take that user data and turn it into something - that something being useful data which is forming the social web which many want to be a part of and which Facebook can benefit financially from. So, how does Facebook do it all?

May 23

Track Mark Zuckerberg’s billions, and see how he makes out post-IPO

After the Facebook IPO, Mark Zuckerberg instantly became a billionaire many times over. Although, the FB stock isn’t doing as well as most would have liked. It started out with an IPO price of $38 a share, which made Zuck worth $19.14 billion. At the opening public price, it went up to $42 but has since bottomed out a bit, down as low as $30.94 and at $31.65 as of this writing.

May 18

Let the races begin: $FB stock begins trading on the open market

After an amazing setup yesterday for the Facebook IPO and a $104 billion company valuation, and this morning with Mark Zuckerberg ringing the NASDAQ bell from Menlo Park California (pictured inset), the Facebook stock (FB) has officially began trading on the open market.

May 17

Update: Facebook’s IPO brings in a valuation of $104 billion

As expected, Facebook completed it’s Initial Public Offering today raising a staggering $16 billion, bringing the total valuation of the uber social network to $104 billion, which makes it one of the biggest IPO’s filed ever.

By the numbers: A look at Facebook’s IPO (infographic)

Facebook’s highly talked about and now famous IPO is going to happen at any moment now. At a valuation at $100 billion and counting, it will be one of the biggest IPO’s to date, three times larger than Starbucks. Is it all that it’s cracked up to be though? Warren Buffet doesn’t think that it is. MBA Online did an infographic on the IPO numbers and included some interesting facts worth checking out.

May 16

How to auto-publish your Google+ posts to Twitter, Facebook and Myspace

If you use multiple social networks, and are trying to incorporate your Google+ posts automatically to other platforms like Twitter, Facebook or even Myspace, you can do it. Sit back and relax, as you post from Google+ and let it auto-feed to your other networks with this new super easy solution.

May 15

Google improves and promotes search with A Google A Day game on Google+

Google created a new game on it’s social network called A Google A Day, which is a daily search puzzle that is solved using nothing but Google Search to find the answers. It’s a clever way to get users to challenge themselves, and also improve your Google Search skills by learning the best ways to use the search engine.

May 10

Facebook is launching the App Center to try to solve the app discovery problem

Facebook announced a new venture that they plan to launch in the near future - a mobile App Center, which will be a neutral mobile app discovery tool on the social networking platform. The goal of the App Center will be to have one central location to find social apps, clearly since Facebook dominates social they want to harvest it as much as possible - with mobile being the future - this was a very strategic move. Being neutral between Apple and Google is key, so it’s one place to find apps regardless of what platform you use.

May 8

FTC: Myspace misled users about sharing personal information with advertisers

Many may not remember, but back in 2010 there was an investigation from the WSJ which discovered that Myspace was leaking private user data from their web apps on the social networking site. Almost two years later, Myspace has settled with the FTC which says that Myspace misled millions of users, sharing personal information with advertisers.

May 4

The FBI proposes amendment to law so they can wiretap the Internet

For 18 years the FBI has been wiretapping phone lines as a means for surveillance on persons of interest in their ongoing investigations. In 1994, the U.S. wiretapping law was passed, several years prior to the World Wide Web. This law gives the FBI full access to your private conversations on any phone lines. Now, the FBI wants to change the law so that they can tap into your Internet conversations as well.

Apr 23

Facebook now has over 900 million active users

Facebook just passed a momentous turning point in the number of active users it has. For a while, they were in the 800-850 million user threshold, but in an amendment to their S-1 IPO filing, they say they now have 901 million active users.

Apr 18

Internet Social Networking Risks: A PSA from the FBI

Social Networking is hot stuff these days, so you know, and the FBI finally felt after several years to publish their own social networking brochure which gives you tips and advice on how to stay a step ahead of nefarious individuals trying to p4wn you on the Interwebs. But in all seriousness, it does have some good info if you aren’t hip to some common web terms such as ‘click-jacking’, ‘doxing’ or ‘pharming’.

Apr 11

Google+ is getting a makeover as it surpasses 170 million users

Google has made a big announcement today saying that they are overhauling Google+, to make it a better user experience with design in mind. The new design changes are rolling out in phases world wide, so if you don’t see it yet you may see it in the next few days.

Apr 10

15 funny Instagrams in response to the Facebook acquisition

After the news broke yesterday about Facebook acquiring Instagram for a billion dollars, users took to their favorite social photo sharing app to express themselves. Here are the 15 best Instagrams where users were clearly emotional about the news.

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