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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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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Tagged: bigdeal, bigdeal misleading, techcrunch, techcrunch ends advertising relationship with Bigdeal
The Associated Press and impreMedia To Deliver impreMedia’s Hispanic News Content over Mobile Devices via AP Mobile
The Associated Press and impreMedia, a major Hispanic multi-platform news and information company in the U.S., just announced an agreement to distribute impreMedia’s Spanish-language content over its multimedia news portal, AP Mobile (www.apnews.com), featuring stories from more than 1,000 local news providers across the country. ImpreMedia content will be featured on the “AP Mobile Noticías en Español” channel, which is available to consumers in the United States who want their international, national and high-level local news in Spanish.
Through this content distribution deal, AP Mobile’s customers will now be able to access impreMedia’s Spanish-language content as it relates to their geographical area. Customers can now receive content anytime and anywhere from impreMedia’s network including El Diario/La Prensa in New York, La Raza in Chicago and La Opinion in Los Angeles.
AP Mobile is a mobile application designed specifically for market-leading smartphones. First-time users configure their location settings to receive local news content. Users can also customize homepage categories, use content ratings, share and save articles on their mobile devices as well as choose their language preference.
A few weeks ago, AP announced plans to launch AP Mobile América Latina, a multimedia wireless news portal that expands the popular AP Mobile news network to consumers throughout the Americas. Earlier this year, AP entered the international market with the development of French and English language versions of The Canadian Press Mobile. Following that, the AP Mobile team launched AP Mobile Noticías en Español featuring U.S. Spanish language news in two versions – as a dedicated news category channel on many of its AP Mobile apps and as a standalone client application available for download on BlackBerry App World.
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Tagged: ap, ap mobile apps, Associated Press, canadian press mobile, hispanic news, impremedia, mobile news
While most areas of the globe won’t see the new MSN home page until 2010, you can take a sneak peek here at the changes. The many ugly top-of-the-page hyperlinks are gone, Bing search is prominent, and visitors can now easily access their Facebook friends and Twitter followers. The question, however, is whether all this time spent on trying to bring Bing to search prominence in the minds of online users has hurt MSN’s success in prospecting for new advertising revenue.
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The weekly Enterprise newspaper in Fallbrook Calif., now part of Lee Enterprises’ North County Times, is haunted, or so goes the Unsolved Mysteries story.
For many years Enterprise employees worked amidst glowing white lights that appeared in one part of the office, quickly vanished and then popped up elsewhere in front of other staff. A glowing ghost of a little girl haunted the Enterprise for many years as well.
In 1989, Enterprise executives, according to Unsolved Mysteries, hired modern day “ghost busters.” Experts from San Diego’s Alexander Institute, a non-profit psychic organization, came to investigate the building and ward off the “evil spirits.” Four ghostly creatures of the night were evicted, and all is calm since then.
OR IS IT?
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NewspaperTiger
