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“Deletion as the Default” — Snapchat and Ephemerality in a Mobile Photo World
Sometimes you want to keep a record of your memories; sometimes you don’t.
Facebook’s Ever-Evolving Campus Welcome Sign
Like. Poke. Search. It all ends up on Facebook’s front door at some point.
Decisive, Distracted or Disaster?
What do Facebook’s elite developers think when Zuckerberg comes into the room and says, “Let’s all bust our asses for two weeks to copy a sexting app?”
–Jason Calacanis on Facebook’s Snapchat clone, Poke
Attention Start-Ups: Just Because Facebook Clones Your App, It Doesn’t Mean You’re Dead
Facebook doesn’t Poke its competitors out of the top App Store ranks for long.
On Facebook, There’s No Privacy Setting for Your Friends’ Bad Judgment
One woman’s errant tweet results in an intimate Zuckerberg family photo being shared across the Internet. And that’s to be expected.
Facebook Confirms Snapchat Competitor — Launching Poke iPhone App
Poking a popular rival, that is.
Worst But First: Yahoo Uses Words of Facebook’s Zuckerberg to Poke Him in Patent Lawsuit
Even if increasingly irrelevant, being there at the start apparently has to count for something, says Yahoo in its allegations against the social networking giant.
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In Vietnam, State "Friends" You
The Internet poses a challenge for authoritarian regimes around the world. But Vietnam’s leaders think they have figured out a new way to tame it–by launching their own, Communist-friendly answer to popular social-networking sites like Facebook.
Bill Gates Joins the Oversharing Generation: He Tweets, He Pokes and Now, He Blogs!
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates–who has been devoting most of this time to philanthropic work via the Gates Foundation–has just launched an ambitious blog and information site. He is calling it “The Gates Notes: An Inside Look at Global Matters,” but BoomTown has officially nicknamed the site–which you can see on a screen grab after the jump–All Things B(ill) or perhaps All Things G(ates) today.