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Remains of the Day: 100 Million Facebook Users’ Info on BitTorrent [For What It's Worth]

Microsoft shows us what's new in Office for Mac and IE9's typography, Android developers get some anti-piracy options, Verizon smartphones eat more data on average than iPhones, and millions of low-privacy Facebook users are combined into a 2.8 GB directory. More
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Facebook Will Celebrate 500 Million Users Next Week

Facebook will finally reach the impressive 500 million user milestone sometime this coming week. To celebrate, it’ll launch “Facebook Stories,” a visual memorial to all the ways the social network has changed people’s lives. All Things Digital’s BoomTown blog uncovered the details in an interview with Facebook marketing guru Randi Zuckerberg last week. She said that while previous announcements of this nature have been about the numbers, this time the company wants it to be all about the users. That’d be empty PR-speak on its own, but she’s talking about a real initiative: Facebook Stories will be a website within Facebook that’ll sort actual, submitted user stories by location and theme.
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Facebook Starts Suggesting Pages to New Users

Facebook has released a new feature that automatically suggests Pages for new users to “Like.” What’s more interesting is that Facebook has placed this new functionality as the second step — second only to finding friends — in the Facebook signup process. Step 2 of 4 is called “Choose your interests,” and here new Facebook members will be greeted with a selection of Pages that are suggested for them based on the Pages that people in the same demographic commonly “Like.” Pages are also selected based on how much they update and engage with Fans. The new recommended Pages feature can obviously be compared to Twitter’s once-controversial “Suggested Users” list, except Facebook’s suggestions are dynamic in nature. Still, Pages gifted with the premium placement will no doubt enjoy a bevy of new Fans.
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Zynga Goes To The Mattresses With Mafia Wars Users

This story fascinates me on so many levels. Here are the basic facts: Zynga has been moving its games off of the Tagged social network and encouraging users to migrate to Facebook. Earlier this month Zynga gave out a special code to Mafia Wars users on Tagged that would give them $120 worth of currency on Facebook when they completed the migration.
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Like Unvarnished, Duedil Is A Reputation System For People

We've seen how Unvarnished is setting out to create a kind of "Yelp for people" where you get reviewed as a person whether you like it or not. Now a new startup has appreared hoping to do something similar, but this time within a network that will give it significant traction from the word go: LinkedIn . Here's how it works: A user of Duedil will be able to submit comments or "reviews," whilst other users will be able to "reply" to them by deeming them "fair" or "unfair." In other words it's a kind of 'karma reputation'.
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The Best Tools for Setting Up Second Accounts [Ask Lifehacker]

Dear Lifehacker, When we're traveling or away from her apartment, my girlfriend borrows my laptop. She uses a different browser, different work applications, and ends up emailing herself files. What's the best way to set up a second account for her convenience? More
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MySpace Positions Itself as Facebook Alternative with New Privacy Settings

Facebook is under fire of late as members threaten a mass exodus and NYU students attempt to build an alternative Facebook . Today MySpace is taking its own jab at Facebook by announcing that the social networking site will soon make the default setting for updates “friends only.” This default privacy change will affect all users who “previously had any granular page setting to ‘friends only,’” but can easily be changed. The change is part of MySpace’s new public commitment to privacy. The once-dominant social network’s stated goal is to simplify settings and let users more clearly post updates publicly, to friends only, or publicly to anyone 18 or over.
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When It Comes To Mobile Ad Click Through, Symbian Is Number One [Advertising]

According to research by mobile ad team Smaato, U.S. users of Symbian-based devices—few and far between as they may be—click 2.7 times more mobile ads than other users. How to explain this tiny victory? More
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Flash 10.1 "Gala" Gives Mac Users Hardware-Accelerated Streaming Video [Downloads]

Mac (Snow Leopard): Your Mac's processor can rest a bit easier now. Adobe has release "Gala," a preview release of Flash 10.1 that can utilize graphics hardware to accelerate streaming web videos, reducing the strain on already-hot CPUs. More
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10 Fresh Tips for Community Managers

**This series is supported by the Social Influence System, presented by Waggener Edstrom Worldwide. To learn more visit Waggeneredstrom.com/nozombies . Most community managers are well-versed in the basics of social media engagement. We all know how to deal with trolls and how to create conversations
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