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While the mid-atlantic has wrapped up this week by posting photos of the blizzard to their Facebook profiles, Facebook itself has had a busy week. The most significant news about Facebook this week has been the backlash against Facebook’s privacy overhaul. With a new FTC complaint filed by 10 privacy organizations, Facebook is under increasing pressure to adjust how they transition users to the new privacy settings. Considering that most users (if not all) have been transitioned, it may be too little, too late.
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Last week was a big one for Facebook as they rolled out their new privacy settings. Initially there was a fair amount of backlash and there continues to be backlash through today as each Facebook user’s friends are now publicly accessible to any user (update: this issue appears to have been resolved). While the privacy changes will continue to receive widespread attention, it’s a step forward in terms of user control over content.
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This week was a big week for Facebook as the company announced that they had surpassed 350 million users and are preparing to roll out some significant product upgrades. Last week Facebook also updated developers about the numerous impending changes to the Platform this month. Those stories and more in “This Week In Facebook”.
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Given the Thanksgiving holiday, this week was a relatively short one in regards to Facebook news, however there were still plenty of things to cover. Most of this week’s buzz pertained to Black Friday, which is why we’ve been covering some of the fastest growing brands on Facebook this week.
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This week has been a relatively active week for Facebook related news although there haven’t been any large announcements from the company. In addition to finding out that the company’s common shares are trading at a price which values the company at over $11 billion, we learned about SocialMedia being acquired by AdKnowledge. There were many more stories as well, all of which are highlighted in “This Week In Facebook”.
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While Facebook didn’t have any significant announcements this week, it was another difficult week for publishers and advertisers who had participated in aggressive mobile offers for generating revenue. A law firm published that they are investigating a potential class action suit against a number of industry participants, currently looking for victims of reverse mobile billing scams from Facebook and other social platforms.
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This week has been one of controversy surrounding the ongoing reverse mobile billing offers across Facebook applications. It also has been a week of positive updates for developers who were on edge about the impending removal of application notifications. While Facebook didn’t have any big product announcements this week, there was enough controversy to make up for the lack of any major rollouts.
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The past week was a big one for Facebook developers who learned about the upcoming platform changes over the next few months. Facebook users also started getting used to the new homepage design which launched a little over a week ago. For this week, the primary stories were all related to new product announcements from Facebook.
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Last week was another busy week for Facebook. Of most significance was that Facebook rolled out a new homepage toward the end of the week. As I wrote over the weekend, the response has been mixed as users adjust to the automatically filtered News Feed. There are also a number of other stories this week related to Bing, Farmville, an upgraded giftshop and more.
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We’ve been delayed in posting our weekly round up of Facebook news as I’ve been out of commission for the entire weekend. We have our weekly video though and given that there were at least a few interesting stories last week, I thought I would briefly highlight them. While there weren’t any major announcements, there were a few important updates.
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