Michael Arrington of Tech Crunch talked to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg at the World Economic Forum.
Among other things, she said that half of its 350 million members log onto the site every day. She told the story of a couple finding a baby to adopt on the social site, and of Facebook’s plans to resolve the technical issues that limit members to 5000 friends.
Fans, she reminded Arrington, are unlimited.
Read the full transcript or watch the video.
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Discover My Network, a new crowd sourcing site, introduced the fully automatic HumanNet Discovery Engine, which filters through the masses to match each user with his or her own network of “maven recommenders.” DMN is the brainchild of its CEO Gary Manfredi, and incorporates music review site Discover My Muse.
Read the full story from Adotas.
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BigDeal bid tokens
TechCrunch and online auction site BigDeal used to have an advertising relationship, at www.techcrunch.bigdeal.com.
But no more.
TechCrunch just announced that BigDeal is deceptive, because its tutorial doesn’t clearly explain the cost of bidding, and winning or losing on the site. Calling BigDeal “at best misleading and at worst little more than a scam” TechCrunch is backing out of the relationship, has removed all BigDeal ads from its site and is asking BigDeal to do the same about TechCrunch.
TechCrunch makes clear that what BigDeal is doing is legal, and it’s not the only one. Also mentioned is Swoopo.
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Fast Flip by Google, still in Google Labs after launching three months ago, makes reading online articles quick and easy. The product allows readers to view online articles as if they were flipping through newspaper or magazine pages. Its mobile version works on Android and IPhones.
“So far, our initial thesis has held up: if you make it easier to read news online, people will read more of it,” says the Google blog this morning. “Users have told us they like being able to browse content so quickly, and we’ve been pleased with the amount of time they have spent reading articles in Fast Flip.”
The 36 current publishers who have been using Fast Flip already saw the same positive results, according to Google.
Now, 24 more publishers are joining Fast Flip, and they represent over 50 newspapers, magazines, Web sites, radio broadcasters and news wires.
New Google Fast Flip partners include Tribune, McClatchy, Huffington Post, Popular Science, Reuters, Public Radio International, POLITICO and U.S. News & World Report.
“While we’re encouraged by the positive feedback about Fast Flip, it’s just one of many experiments you’ll see us try in partnership with news publishers,” Google wrote. “Our goal is to work with the industry to help it continue to innovate and build bigger audiences, better engage those audiences and generate more revenue. We’re looking forward to innovating and iterating with all these new partners in Fast Flip.”
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If you’ve been following the litigious saga of eBay v. Craiglist, you know they’re in Court this week – in Georgetown, Delaware’s Chancery Court. AIM Group is there, and has been posting the court proceedings daily.
Yesterday was a real eye-opener, with eBay testifying that the $16 million payment to former Craigslist owner Phillip Knowlton for his shares of Craigslist also included $8 million payments each to Jim Buckmaster and Craig Newmark or the sale wasn’t going through. Wow! EBay called this extortion. The details are on AIM Group’s site.
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