Photobucket: Holidays Were All About Mobile Photos — And Fido

’Fess up: you took lots of holiday photos on your mobile phone this year, and/or you dressed your dog up as Rudolph for the annual greeting card.
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Samsung Smart TVs Get Sweeter With SugarSync

Turns out cloud service SugarSync is behind some of those Samsung “smart” TVs — which means users aren’t limited to sharing only from other Samsung devices.
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Airbnb Hires Former Yahoo Legal Eagle Belinda Johnson as General Counsel

Here’s the lawyer who’s going to write that ironclad lease — that promised espresso maker better be there! — for the lovely apartment in Italy we rented.
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Here’s Gowalla CEO’s Non-Denial Denial Email to Investors About Facebook Acquisition

Let’s put this one in the “done” column, shall we?
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Social Networking Users Say They Want More Control Over Their Info

Online privacy is not just for wonks any more. Lots of people say it’s important to them — especially when researchers come asking.
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Circling the TV Ads: Google+ Hawks Itself (Video)

Sharing via incessantly sorting all your relationships is apparently now a marketing plus.
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How Facebook Fired Up Techmeme

Spotify song sharing is like the new FarmVille, and its auto-sharing turned out to be an unpleasant surprise for folks who didn’t quite understand just how frictionless Open Graph sharing would be.

CNET’s Molly Wood, from a much-discussed Friday article entitled “How Facebook is ruining sharing”

Digital Marketing Start-Up Thismoment Raises $7.3 Million From Sierra Ventures

Another day, another pile of funding for a social marketing start-up.

Too Much Information

If you project forward 10 years, each person will share about 1,000 times more things per day than they are now.

Mark Zuckerberg to reporters on a recent recruiting trip to Harvard

Snip and Save or Put a Pin in It: Two Ways to Share Web Faves

There are plenty of ways to save Web sites or lists, but Pinterest and Snip.it display content in a pleasing, easy-to-digest manner that can be shared with others.
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Five Questions With Facebook’s Chris Cox