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The New Yorker has an extremely interesting profile of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Jose Antonio Vargas was given unprecedented access to Zuck and conducted several interviews with him, his closest friends, and even his girlfriend. I have to admit, I love Facebook. It’s one of the most important sites in the world. However, Zuck scares me a little bit. I’m not sure what his real intentions are or if we should all trust Facebook as much as we do. But then again, Google scares me in the same way. One of the interesting things about Zuck is that his friends call him the “poorest rich...

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Here’s an interesting keynote speech delivered by Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes at the NAMIC conference back in October. He talks about social media and the ways in which it is changing our lives. It’s nearly an hour long and includes Q & A with the audience. Chris Hughes Keynote NAMIC 2009 from Chris Jones on Vimeo.

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This from the FriendFeed blog: We are happy to announce that Facebook has acquired FriendFeed. As my mom explained to me, when two companies love each other very much, they form a structured investment vehicle... The FriendFeed team is extremely excited to become a part of the talented Facebook team. We've always been great admirers of Facebook, and our companies share a common vision. Now we have the opportunity to bring many of the innovations we've developed at FriendFeed to Facebook's 250 million users around the world and to work alongside Facebook's passionate engineers to create even...

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MySpace was the first big social network to really break out and become a nation wide phenomenon. The MySpace craze was initially driven by kids and young people.   As a result, many professionals and other grown folks mistakenly believe social media and social networking is kiddie stuff. The truth is that many adults are on MySpace, but I’ll concede it’s mostly a younger crowd.   Facebook on the other hand is totally different. Facebook is the Myspace for grown-ups --- only much better. Not only is Facebook a great way to stay connected with friends and family, but it’s also...

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  Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been secretly keeping a private account on Twitter in addition to his public one....

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