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Online Media Daily: MoveOn.org's Anti-McCain Effort Turns To Facebook

… and back to the issue that is the organization’s real focus–getting a Democrat back into the White House–MoveOn.org Political Action launched a new group on Facebook Thursday callled “Bush and McCain: Can you tell the difference?”
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Can Facebook Build a Better Passport?

Facebook is matching new features from MySpace that will let users bring information from their profiles onto other sites. It is also reviving another idea: the possibility of a universal logon, an idea tried unsuccessfully years ago by …
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Is Facebook Evil? Part 2

Back in November I asked if Facebook is evil. At the time, the post was referencing Beacon which was eventually killed. For argument’s sake Facebook returned back to being good as it applies to Facebook Beacon. …
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Songza Announces Facebook App and API

The Songza Facebook app lets friends see what each other are listening to on the Songza web site. Whenever a song is added to your playlist, that information is posted to your mini-feed and your profile page. Your friends can then click …
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Facebook and Google: True Social Networking Friends

“Now that Google has launched Friend Connect, we’ve had a chance to evaluate the technology,” the post by Facebook employee Charlie Cheever read. “We’ve found that it redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers …
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Facebook is No Friend of Google's

To stress that Facebook really, really wants to play nice with Google, or perhaps more appropriately, that Facebook really, really wants Google to bow to its will, Facebook engineer Charlie Cheever said that Facebook“reached out to …
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The Social Platform PR Wars Continue: Facebook Bans Google Friend

It’s been a very interesting week in the world of social platforms and data sharing: after years of talk in the data portability community, industry behemoths Facebook, MySpace, and Google all announced major data, identity, …
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How Facebook is like the Bush Administration

If Facebook truly believed this, then Beacon would never have happened. The double-speak coming out of this company is really astounding. While many millions of people who use Facebook don’t care enough about the company to actually …
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Facebook bans Google's Friend Connect over privacy issues

Google’s plan to distribute user data via website widgets has run into a snag.
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Moneybookers Launches Money Transfer Facebook Application

We haven’t written about many Facebook apps recently but today one caught our eye. It’s from Moneybookers (similar to PayPal) based in the UK. Moneybookers is one of the largest money transfer services online with over 4.6 million …
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