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Social Media January 17, 2011

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Is TIME’s Person of the Year & Why That’s Just Right

In 2006, TIME magazine announced that it was giving the coveted title of its “Person of the Year” to someone we all were very familiar with: You. In doing so, they were acknowledging that in 2006, the role social media played in shaping the news and affecting the way the world worked was quite legitimate. […]

Social Media September 26, 2010

Thanks Zuckerberg: I Applaud Your Philanthropy Despite Your Motives

So by now you probably have heard that Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has done something pretty remarkable. Last week, he appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show on the heels of the upcoming release of The Social Network, an unofficial look at how the social network was started. But it wasn’t to argue against the movie or […]

Marketing August 23, 2010

Facebook Ventures into Location-Based Services – But Is There a Dark Side?

By now, you’ve probably been aware of Facebook’s latest announcement regarding its move into the location-based arena. Called Facebook Places, the social network is banking on its 500 million monthly active users to start checking into places and basically do what millions have been doing with Foursquare and Gowalla. Within the social media space, Facebook would […]