Facebook 'app economy' has created more than 182000 jobs, study says

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Facebook 'app economy' has created more than 182000 jobs, study says
Los Angeles Times (blog)
Facebook apps and mobile apps on smartphones and tablets have, according to
the University of Maryland, given rise to a new industry that it calls the
"app economy." And the app industry is one of the few segments of the
overall economy that is seeing ...
<http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/TheTechnologyBlog/~3/gSwHSLGmzAU/university-of-maryland-study-says-facebook-apps-have-created-more-than-182-thousand-jobs.html>

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Poll: Young people see online slurs as just joking
The Associated Press
How about slinging offensive names for homosexuals in a post to a friend on
Facebook? Or texting a racial slur? Most young people think it's all right
when friends are joking around with each other, according to a new poll.
<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j-e51ESTWy2HyBZuPDEDKXva-YiA?docId=724509a34b4847779b1e10588d82e24c>

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Facebook to launch Read, Listened, and Watched buttons (rumor)
ZDNet (blog)
By Emil Protalinski | September 19, 2011, 6:33pm PDT Summary: Facebook is
planning to launch three new buttons in addition to the Like button: Read,
Listened, and Watched. At its f8 developer conference this week, Facebook
will reportedly unveil three ...
<http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-to-launch-read-listened-and-watched-buttons-rumor/3853>

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HTML5 Mobile App Framework PhoneGap Adds Facebook Connect ...

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HTML5 Mobile App Framework PhoneGap Adds Facebook Connect ...
By Sarah Perez
"We got working on a Facebook plugin because we're user experience
advocates," Dave Johnson, CTO at Nitobi Inc. says. "The OAuth
authentication workflow for a mobile app isn't ideal so we created the
PhoneGap Facebook Connect plugin ...
<http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/30/html5-mobile-app-framework-phonegap-adds-facebook-connect-plugin/>
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Daily Challenge Presses You To Do Something Good For Yourself ...
By Alan Henry
Daily Challenge connects with your Facebook account, and once you're logged
in the service will send you a note at 7am every morning with the challenge
of the day in it. At any point during the day, you can complete the
challenge, and when ...
<http://lifehacker.com/5835713/daily-challenge-presses-you-to-do-something-good-for-yourself-every-day>
Lifehacker
<http://lifehacker.com/>

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Twix Plays Facebook Games With Feedbreaker
By David Cohen
What do you get when you mix a candy bar and a classic video game? Twix
tapped Breakout with its biscuit finger (coated in caramel and milk
chocolate, naturally) to create Feedbreaker.
<http://www.allfacebook.com/twix-plays-facebook-games-with-feedbreaker-2011-08>
All Facebook
<http://www.allfacebook.com/>

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Facebook Wants Your Comment on Its Privacy Policy Changes
By Dan Rowinski
Facebook changed its privacy policy and sharing options last week to make
it easier for users to customize how they share their information. It is a
process that has been in the works for most of 201, after Facebook proposed
a simpler format ...
<http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_your_comment_on_its_privacy_policy.php>
ReadWriteWeb
<http://www.readwriteweb.com/>

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7 Tips for Dealing With Upset Facebook Fans | Social Media Examiner
By Jim Belosic
Facebook community management: Learn how to respond to upset fans and how
deal with customer complaints on your Facebook Page wall and maintain
credibility.
<http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/7-tips-for-dealing-with-upset-facebook-fans/>
Social Media Examiner
<http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/>

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Miramax Launches Facebook App For Streaming Movies | TechCrunch

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Miramax Launches Facebook App For Streaming Movies | TechCrunch
By Jordan Crook

Following the lead of Warner Bros, Paramount, and Universal, Miramax has
jumped on the Facebook app bandwagon offering movie rentals in exchange for
Facebook credits. Along with watching movie clips and playing games, users
will get ...

<http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/22/miramax-launches-facebook-app-for-streaming-movies/>
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Miramax inks App, VOD deal with Facebook to rent, buy movies ...
By Jeff Jensen
Miramax announced today that it has inked a deal with Facebook that allows
users of the social media site to buy or rent digital versions of the
studio's films.
<http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/08/22/miramax-creates-facebook-app-so-you-can-rent-buy-movies-will-you-like-this/>
Inside Movies
<http://insidemovies.ew.com/>

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Facebook Turns Schools Into Hellscapes of Abuse and Hysteria
By Ryan Tate
A survey by British principals found teachers fear Facebook more than they
fear official schools inspectors, with 20 percent having received online
abuse or threats. It's just the latest evidence that people turn into
Facebook maniacs ...
<http://gawker.com/5833288/facebook-turns-schools-into-hellscapes-of-abuse-and-hysteria>
Gawker:
<http://www.gawker.com/>

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Facebook: Acquisitions, a focus on design & mobile will repel Google
By Matt Brian
Facebook will double its number of acquisitions from last year, focus on
design, website reliability and roll out new mobile apps and services to
ensure it remains the world's most popular social network, Bloomberg
reports. ...
<http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2011/08/23/facebook-acquisitions-and-a-focus-on-design-and-mobile-will-repel-rivals/>
The Next Web
<http://thenextweb.com/facebook/>

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Now showing on Facebook: Pulp Fiction and other Miramax movies ...
By Alexei Oreskovic
On Monday Miramax announced a special Facebook app that will allow users to
rent, and eventually buy, movies and view them within Facebook. The studio
is releasing 20 movies, including Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting and Spy Kids,
<http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2011/08/23/now-showing-on-facebook-pulp-fiction-and-other-miramax-movies/>
MediaFile
<http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/>

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TinyChat iPhone App Lets You Video Chat With Up To 12 Facebook Friends

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TinyChat iPhone App Lets You Video Chat With Up To 12 Facebook Friends
Washington Post
By TechCrunch.com, Video chat startup TinyChat has released its first iOS
app, TinyChat FB, which allows you to video chat with up to 12 Facebook
friends from your smartphone. TinyChat co-founder Dan Blake tells me that
what sets TinyChat FB apart from ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/tinychat-iphone-app-lets-you-video-chat-with-up-to-12-facebook-friends/2011/08/12/gIQA9q6hBJ_story.html>

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Time for a Facebook-privacy checkup
CNET
Facebook wants to be a part of everything we do on the Web. The company's
philosophy is that the Internet is more fun when it's shared. In some ways
social networks are like parties that never end. The problem is, we can't
be sure who else Facebook has ...
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20091775-285/time-for-a-facebook-privacy-checkup/>

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Corporate Britain joins the social network
The Independent
Nick Clark reports As well as answering questions about how to get hold of
clutch bags and the availability of loafers in size seven, the Facebook
page of clothing store Next is dealing with an unhappy customer. Kirsty's
order turned up missing two ...
<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/corporate-britain-joins-the-social-network-2336922.html>

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Facebook Reacts To Google Games
Wall Street Journal
By SHAYNDI RAICE Facebook Inc. made a series of changes Friday to its
online-gaming platform, a day after its biggest rival in social media,
Google Inc.'s Google+ site, launched online games. Facebook posted an
update on its blog late Thursday ...
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904823804576504624079447138.html?mod=googlenews_wsj>

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Is The Competition Getting To Facebook?
AllFacebook
A delicate dance of moves and counter moves between Facebook, Google Plus
and app developers has broken out — evidenced by the changes in social
games both companies announced on Thursday — and is leaving some wonder
if the competition is getting to ...
<http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-googleplus-competition-2011-08>

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