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Media Decoder Blog: Facebook Now Must Balance User Experience and Investor Experience

by By DAVID CARR on Feb 6, 2012 • No Comments

Facebook has largely managed to avoid being seen as greedy, or potentially dangerous, but that gets complicated when you are sitting on billions of dollars in market value.

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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: The Full Dive Into Media Interview (Video)

by Peter Kafka on Feb 6, 2012 • No Comments

"We’re in the media business, but we’re not necessarily a media company."

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Daily Must Reads, Feb. 6, 2012

by MediaShift on Feb 6, 2012 • No Comments

The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung.

1. Twitter: In last 3 minutes of Super Bowl, there were 10,000 tweets per second (TechCrunch)

2. First streaming of Super Bowl a success, but left a lot to be desired (TechCrunch)

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Facebook Mobile Ads Developing: Sponsored Stories Coming ‘Within Weeks’

by Ingrid Lunden on Feb 6, 2012 • No Comments

It’s not digital advertising in the sense of display ads and search results, but it looks like we are getting a bit more color on what it is that Facebook will do first in the world of mobile marketing, and it could be coming online “within weeks.”

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A Super Social Bowl

by Peter Kafka on Feb 5, 2012 • No Comments

You watched the game on the big screen, and you typed and read on a smaller one. Which is exactly what Twitter and Facebook were hoping for.

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Facebook/POLITICO Poll Finds Trump Endorsement Was Net Negative For Mitt Romney

by Josh Feldman on Feb 5, 2012 • No Comments

Mitt Romney easily won Nevada last night, but this past week has also been notable for Romney thanks to a surprise last-minute endorsement by famed recluse Donald Trump. Trump has now promised to drop the whole notion of running as an independent for the presidency if Romney ends up being the Republican nominee. But...

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Update: Facebook Has A Mobile Card Up Its Sleeve In Addition To Advertising

by Ingrid Lunden on Feb 3, 2012 • No Comments

Much has been made of the mobile risks that Facebook laid out in its S-1 IPO filing earlier this week. Essentially, it’s seeing/pushing massive growth in mobile, but it still hasn’t tried out advertising, its most effective route to revenues, on this platform. That’s not to say it won’t. But meanwhile, there is another area...

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Reuters productizes social media through Social Pulse

by Justin Ellis on Feb 3, 2012 • No Comments

Think of Reuters Social Pulse as a social-media weapon for the C-suite set. That's because the newly debuted dashboard is designed to make the world of social media less of a shiny toy and more of a daily intelligence tool. Even as it tries to branch out to reach broader audiences through its news service,...

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Poll: What Will Facebook Be Worth in 5 Years?

by MediaShift on Feb 3, 2012 • No Comments

They say that history repeats itself, but that's so easy to forget. It was only as recently as 2006 that analysts were saying that MySpace was likely worth $15 billion (and I was spoofing that conclusion). And you can go back to older...

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Media Decoder Blog: The Breakfast Meeting: Super Bowl ‘Ad Creep,’ and Online Backlash at Cancer Foundation

by By NOAM COHEN on Feb 3, 2012 • No Comments

Also, federal authorities seize 16 sites that were allegedly streaming live sporting events, and how Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook in his own image.

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Pew data: Facebook has room for passives as well as actives

by Justin Ellis on Feb 3, 2012 • No Comments

If it's so much better to give than receive, why are some Facebook users sitting on their hands? The Pew Internet and American Life Project released a new report today that suggests Facebook users are not a uniformly active bunch. According to the study, the typical Facebook user gets more friend requests than she sends,...

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